Darin Hart AL18
N51JM is a Darin Hart AL18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Bennett Aviation LLC, an LLC in Lafayette, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 17, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 11, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Darin Hart
- Model
- AL18
- Serial number
- AL-340
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2022
- Kit
- AMERICAN LEGEND AIRCRAFT CO AL18
- Transponder code
- A65FEA (octal 51457752)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 17, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 17, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 11, 2022
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01365252
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bennett Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 120 Rue Beauregard Ste 200
Lafayette, LA 70508-3129
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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 2
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The public federal record on N51JM, 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 Bennett Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 17, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 11, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AL-340 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51JM was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Gray Aircraft Inc JLM 007 (serial 001, cancelled May 19, 2015); Murphy J L LIGHTING BUG (serial 001, cancelled February 23, 2006). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N51JM. 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