{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2007-06-14","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-03-20","city":"HAMILTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"081","cruise_speed_mph":126,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Loan or lien (security agreement)","doc_type_code":"S/A","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-18"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41598","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-540-K1G5D","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-07-02","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7103213","mode_s_code":"50237342","mode_s_hex":"A13EE2","model":"PA-32R-300","n_number":"N18FT","name":"SK VENTURES LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N18FT is a Piper PA-32R-300, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Sk Ventures LLC, an LLC in Hamilton, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 20, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 14, 2007. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Sk Ventures LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 20, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 14, 2007, 31 years after the 1976 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 32-R-7780126 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N18FT according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 18, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N18FT. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":7,"serial_number":"32-R-7780126","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"710 S 2ND ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00339749","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N18FT","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1976,"zip":"598403003"}