Highley Robert W Jr THORP T-18
N711SH is a Highley Robert W Jr THORP T-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lakeland, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 17, 1984 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 15, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Highley Robert W Jr
- Model
- THORP T-18
- Serial number
- 835
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- A9815C (octal 52300534)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 17, 1984
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 15, 1998
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00090997
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Highley Robert W JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2919 Deerbrook Drive
Lakeland, FL 33811
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N711SH, 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 Highley Robert W JR, an individual, certificate issued February 17, 1984, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 15, 1998, 14 years after the 1984 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 835 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N711SH 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N711SH. 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