Aea Research Pty Ltd EXPLORER 350R
N718DA is an Aea Research Pty Ltd EXPLORER 350R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Explorer Aircraft INC, a corporation in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 28, 2016 and expires on April 30, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aea Research Pty Ltd
- Model
- EXPLORER 350R
- Serial number
- 350-001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A99A11 (octal 52315021)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 28, 2016
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01195820
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Explorer Aircraft INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 7670 Woodway Dr Ste 200
Houston, TX 77063-1531
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
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The public federal record on N718DA, 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 Explorer Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 28, 2016, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 350-001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N718DA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed L-1011-385-1 (serial 193C-1097, cancelled June 13, 2005). 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 N718DA: Incident on June 2, 1992 at Atlanta, GA: minor injuries. 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: Lockheed L-1011-1 · operated under 121
THE OVERHEATING OF THE NUMBER 2 AIR CYCLE MACHINE WHICH RESULTED IN AN EMERGENCY EVACUATION VIA SLIDES; THE FAILURE OF THE FLIGHT ATTENDANTS TO SECURE THE SLIDE GIRT BARS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL92IA113 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