Emmet Smith ROADRUNNER
N949TS is an Emmet Smith ROADRUNNER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Portola, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 27, 2018 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 10, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Emmet Smith
- Model
- ROADRUNNER
- Serial number
- 0818
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360-B1A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- AD3051 (octal 53230121)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 27, 2018
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 10, 2018
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01282318
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Emmet Q
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 73498 Hwy 70
Portola, CA 96122-7077
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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 N949TS, 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 Smith Emmet Q, an individual, certificate issued August 27, 2018, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 10, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0818 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N949TS 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 N949TS: Accident on January 29, 2019 at Truckee, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Emmet Smith ROADRUNNER · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s improper decision to allow the airplane to exit the runway onto a snow-covered field, which resulted in a nose-over.
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