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Mooney M-18C
N478M is a Mooney M-18C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1950. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in New Brighton, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 11, 2003 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 20, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mooney
- Model
- M-18C · all M-18Cs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. The Mite: an all-wood single-seater under fabric. This is how the Mooney M-18 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
- 233
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1950
- Cruising speed
- 103 mph
- Transponder code
- A5DFE5 (octal 51357745)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 11, 2003
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · March 20, 1956
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00790075
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bachman Mildred R
- 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
- 175 John St
New Brighton, PA 15066-9707
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N478M links to the rest of the register
- Mooney M-18 98 registered
- Mooney 5,396 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental A65 / C65 series 7,965 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- New Brighton, PA 10 aircraft registered in this town
- Pennsylvania 6,183 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Mooney M-18 8 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Mooney M-18 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Mooney M-18 52 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N478M, 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 Bachman Mildred R, an individual, certificate issued August 11, 2003, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 20, 1956, 6 years after the 1950 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 233 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N478M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson JR. S (serial 8105, cancelled February 9, 1935). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N478M. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data