Jones Scott M THORP T-18
N480YS is a Jones Scott M THORP T-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Arad Aviation LLC, an LLC in Breckenridge, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 3, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Jones Scott M
- Model
- THORP T-18
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-E2D · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A5EAD0 (octal 51365320)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 16, 2020
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 3, 2015
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01177802
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Arad Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 5392
Breckenridge, CO 80424-5392
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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 N480YS, 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 Arad Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 16, 2020, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 3, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N480YS 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 N480YS. 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