Arvidson THORP T-18
N9ET is an Arvidson THORP T-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Athens, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 7, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Arvidson
- Model
- THORP T-18
- Serial number
- 312
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 95 mph
- Transponder code
- AC6AF0 (octal 53065360)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 21, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 21, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 7, 2000
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00321981
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Torbett Edwin J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7635 Romans Rd
Athens, TX 75751-8421
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 1
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The public federal record on N9ET, 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 Torbett Edwin J, an individual, certificate issued August 21, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. 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 312 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9ET was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 36 (serial E-85, cancelled September 18, 2008). 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 N9ET: Accident on August 6, 2007 at Jean, NV: 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: Beech 36 · operated under 091
A loss of engine power for undetermined reasons.
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
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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