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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Titan Aircraft TORNADO
N518DM is a Titan Aircraft TORNADO, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bethesda, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 16, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated April 26, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Titan Aircraft
- Model
- TORNADO
- Serial number
- D95XXXCOHK0156
- 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
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 582DCDI · 65 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- A67F7E (octal 51477576)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 16, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 26, 2007
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00337909
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bishton Michael P
- 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
- 6020 Walhonding Rd
Bethesda, MD 20816-2169
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
Connections how N518DM links to the rest of the register
- Titan Aircraft 23 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 582DCDI 578 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Bethesda, MD 44 aircraft registered in this town
- Maryland 2,362 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N518DM.json.
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The public federal record on N518DM, 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 Bishton Michael P, an individual, certificate issued January 16, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 26, 2007, 12 years after the 1995 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 D95XXXCOHK0156 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N518DM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 65-A90 (serial LJ-251, cancelled May 1, 2000). 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 N518DM: Accident on July 31, 1999 at Marine City, MI: fatal, destroyed (10 fatal). 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: Beech 65-A90 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed, which resulted in a stall, inflight loss of contol, and collision with the ground.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data