Irwin Kenneth SONEX 2180
N514KP is an Irwin Kenneth SONEX 2180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Sparta, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 12, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 9, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Irwin Kenneth
- Model
- SONEX 2180
- Serial number
- 514
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Kit
- SONEX LTD SONEX
- Transponder code
- A6713A (octal 51470472)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 12, 2021
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 9, 2006
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00188719
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sanders Vernon J
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 11595 County Highway A
Sparta, WI 54656-8033 - Co-owners
- Pipkin Susan D
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N514KP, 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 Sanders Vernon J, a co-owned, certificate issued October 12, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 9, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 514 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N514KP 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]
1 NTSB record under N514KP: Accident on February 27, 2006 at Rockford, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Irwin Sonex 2180 · operated under 091
The loss of engine power due to the restricted movement of the throttle cable during cruise flight. A factor in the accident was the trees contacted during the forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI06LA088 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