Manley Richard A THORP T-18
N79RM is a Manley Richard A THORP T-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bakersfield, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 18, 2006 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 15, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Manley Richard A
- Model
- THORP T-18
- Serial number
- 705
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- AAB72F (octal 52533457)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 18, 2006
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 15, 1980
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00225080
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hannah Ricky D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2006 Torrey Dr
Bakersfield, CA 93312-2816
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N79RM, 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 Hannah Ricky D, an individual, certificate issued August 18, 2006, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 15, 1980, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 705 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N79RM 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 N79RM. 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