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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026American Legend Aircraft Co AL18
N458RS is an American Legend Aircraft Co AL18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Phoenix, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 14, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport previously certificated, dated September 14, 2024.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- American Legend Aircraft Co
- Model
- AL18 · all AL18s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. A new-production Cub: steel tube and fabric. This is how the American Legend Aircraft Co AL18 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- AL-1188
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming YO-233 · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2014
- Kit
- AMERICAN LEGEND AIRCRAFT CO AL18
- Transponder code
- A5915C (octal 51310534)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 14, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 14, 2024
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Operating light-sport previously certificatedFAA certificate purpose code 8C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 14, 2024
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01149747
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kaufman Caleb
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 12802 N 8Th Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85029-1819
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N458RS links to the rest of the register
- American Legend Aircraft Co AL18 48 registered
- American Legend Aircraft Co 231 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming YO-233 19 aircraft with this engine series · 115 hp
- Phoenix, AZ 993 aircraft registered in this town
- Mesa Gateway Airport · IWA
- Phoenix Deer Valley Airport · DVT
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International · PHX
- Arizona 8,410 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N458RS, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Kaufman Caleb, an individual, certificate issued January 14, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 14, 2024, 10 years after the 2014 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AL-1188 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N458RS according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N458RS: Accident on March 28, 2024 at Phoenix, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: American Legend Aircraft CO AL18 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data