Simmons Noel SDL
N945PL is a Simmons Noel SDL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Thorp, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 28, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 13, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Simmons Noel
- Model
- SDL
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- AD210B (octal 53220413)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 28, 2014
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 13, 2005
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00146739
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wheatley John P JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 190
Thorp, WA 98946-0190
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N945PL, 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 Wheatley John P JR, an individual, certificate issued July 28, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 13, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N945PL 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]
1 NTSB record under N945PL: Accident on August 23, 2016 at Naches, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Simmons Noel SDL · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a bounced landing.
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 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