Gardner William R THORP T-18
N70BZ is a Gardner William R THORP T-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Caseyville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 2022 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 21, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gardner William R
- Model
- THORP T-18
- Serial number
- 1325
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A95266 (octal 52251146)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 7, 2022
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 21, 2011
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00213676
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Faibisoff Isaac J
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 40 Sycamore Dr
Caseyville, IL 62232-2048 - Co-owners
- Riutcel Terri L
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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 N70BZ, 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 Faibisoff Isaac J, a co-owned, certificate issued April 7, 2022, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 21, 2011, 6 years after the 2005 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 1325 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N70BZ 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 N70BZ: Accident on May 29, 2020 at Madisonville, TN: minor 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: Thorp THORP T 18 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll on a soft turf runway, which resulted in a nose-over.
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 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