Richards Edward J ROTORWAY EXEC
N7818F is a Richards Edward J ROTORWAY EXEC, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1986. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Big Lake, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 7, 2017 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 20, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Richards Edward J
- Model
- ROTORWAY EXEC
- Serial number
- 3085
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotorway RW152 · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1986
- Transponder code
- AA97B3 (octal 52513663)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 7, 2017
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 20, 1989
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00140657
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Crabtree William D SR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 521056
Big Lake, AK 99652-1056
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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 1
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The public federal record on N7818F, 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 Crabtree William D SR, an individual, certificate issued December 7, 2017, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 20, 1989, 3 years after the 1986 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 3085 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7818F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150F (serial 15063918, cancelled April 20, 2012). 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 N7818F: Accident on May 31, 2011 at Sully, IA: no 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: Cessna 150F · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to attain an adequate climb rate during the initial takeoff, resulting in the airplane settling back down and departing the runway. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's inadequate preflight planning and preparation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN11LA366 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
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