{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2011-02-11","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"LAVALA QUEBEC","country_code":"CA","county_code":"","cruise_speed_mph":93,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"20004","engine_horsepower":140,"engine_maker":"DEHAV ENG","engine_model":"GIPSY MAJOR","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-08-29","maker":"Dehavilland","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DEHAVILLAND","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2801739","mode_s_code":"50241661","mode_s_hex":"A143B1","model":"DHC-1B-2-S5","n_number":"N18048","name":"SALE REPORTED","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"HENDERSON","damage":"DEST","date":"1984-07-04","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"SEA84FA158","probable_cause":"","registration":"N18048","state":"NV","summary":"Accident on July 4, 1984 at Henderson, NV: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N18048 is a Dehavilland DHC-1B-2-S5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lavala Quebec. The FAA lists the registration as \"sale reported\". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated February 11, 2011.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Sale reported\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 11, 2011, 55 years after the 1956 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 186/224 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N18048 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna C-38 (serial 400, cancelled December 5, 1938); Cessna 150L (serial 15073758, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N18048: Accident on July 4, 1984 at Henderson, NV: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"186/224","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"","status":"Sale reported","status_code":"7","status_short":"Sale reported","street":"260 VANASS","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00244651","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N18048","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1956,"zip":"H7X 3L9"}