Mantooth THORP T-18
N78DW is a Mantooth THORP T-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in San Antonio, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 20, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 27, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mantooth
- Model
- THORP T-18
- Serial number
- 844
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 95 mph
- Transponder code
- AA8E8D (octal 52507215)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 20, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 27, 1982
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00650367
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Neu Lawrence R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11839 Parliament St #1113
San Antonio, TX 78216
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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 N78DW, 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 Neu Lawrence R, an individual, certificate issued September 20, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 27, 1982, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 844 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78DW was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech 58 (serial TH-1659, cancelled November 2, 2009); Wemple Don K Md SOLITAIRE (serial 12, cancelled June 5, 1991). 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 N78DW: Accident on August 28, 2021 at San Antonio, TX: 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: Mantooth THORP T-18 · operated under 091
The loss of engine power after takeoff for undetermined reasons.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN21LA390 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