Piston Biplane SMITH MINI PLANE
N85P is a Piston Biplane SMITH MINI PLANE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Easley, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 3, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 26, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piston Biplane
- Model
- SMITH MINI PLANE
- Serial number
- RP-1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 85 mph
- Transponder code
- ABA644 (octal 52723104)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 3, 2020
- Expires
- February 28, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 26, 1982
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00782841
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bannister Terry L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4022 Saluda Dam Rd
Easley, SC 29640-6700
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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 N85P, 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 Bannister Terry L, an individual, certificate issued February 3, 2020, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial RP-1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N85P 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 N85P. 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