Shipler SKYBOLT
N918V is a Shipler SKYBOLT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Milwaukie, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2007 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 15, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Shipler
- Model
- SKYBOLT
- Serial number
- SS-001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 85 mph
- Transponder code
- ACB63E (octal 53133076)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2007
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 15, 1980
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00740802
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Harfst Michael D
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 2277 SE Mulberry Dr
Milwaukie, OR 97267-4534
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 2
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The public federal record on N918V, 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 Harfst Michael D, an individual, certificate issued February 28, 2007, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 15, 1980, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial SS-001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N918V was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Delong Harry V GLASTAR GS-1 (serial 5219, cancelled October 7, 2011); Bird CK (serial 4016, cancelled August 26, 1931). 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 N918V: Accident on March 20, 1999 at Lapeer, MI: 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: Delong GLASTAR GS-1 · operated under 091
The failure of the pilot to maintain compensation for wind conditions. Factors to the accident were the crosswind condition and the presence of trees along the runway.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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