Kopp-Herschel THORP T18
N45MD is a Kopp-Herschel THORP T18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Motz Daniel J, a partnership in Tucson, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 11, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kopp-Herschel
- Model
- THORP T18
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A570DA (octal 51270332)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 22, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 11, 1980
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00372704
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Motz Daniel J
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 9106 N Safflower Ln
Tucson, AZ 85743-8942 - Co-owners
- Acree Randall D
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N45MD, 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 Motz Daniel J, a partnership, certificate issued July 22, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 11, 1980, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N45MD 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N45MD. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data