Adams T/Adams B/Adams B ADAMS/THORPE T-18
N51079 is an Adams T/Adams B/Adams B ADAMS/THORPE T-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1994. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Taylorsville, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 7, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 31, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams T/Adams B/Adams B
- Model
- ADAMS/THORPE T-18
- Serial number
- 988
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- A664DE (octal 51462336)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 7, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 7, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 31, 2007
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00284062
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Paul S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2273 W Smith Legacy Cv
Taylorsville, UT 84129-1601
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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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N51079, 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 Smith Paul S, an individual, certificate issued June 7, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 31, 2007, 13 years after the 1994 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 988 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51079 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150J (serial 15069749, cancelled April 23, 1990). 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]
2 NTSB records under N51079: Accident on July 3, 1994 at Stockton, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on December 7, 1985 at Temple, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Adams THORPE T-18 · operated under 091
A VAPOR LOCK INDUCED ENGINE FAILURE DUE TO INADEQUATE THERMAL SHIELDING OF THE FUEL PUMP AND LINES. SOFT TERRAIN IN THE LANDING AREA WAS A FACTOR.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX94LA273 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150J · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW86LRG04 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data