Adams Carl R THORP T-18
N513CA is an Adams Carl R THORP T-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Vincennes, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 21, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Adams Carl R
- Model
- THORP T-18
- Serial number
- 6670
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A66CC7 (octal 51466307)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 21, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 21, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01509686
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Adams Carl R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 478 N Deer Creek Dr
Vincennes, IN 47591-6836
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N513CA, 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 Adams Carl R, an individual, certificate issued July 21, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 6670 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N513CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Rockwell International 112TC (serial 13053, cancelled March 25, 2019). 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]
1 NTSB record under N513CA: Accident on May 4, 2016 at Durango, CO: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Rockwell International 112TC · operated under 091
The instructed pilot's interference with the flight controls during landing, which resulted in the flight instructor's inability to maintain directional control, resulting in a runway excursion and substantial damage to the firewall and left wing spar.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data