{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2023-06-05","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-03-01","city":"GAINESVILLE","country_code":"US","county_code":"001","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"59251","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"SUPERIOR","engine_model":"IO-360 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-03-01","maker":"Frank Owens","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"FRANK OWENS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05641T0","mode_s_code":"50237373","mode_s_hex":"A13EFB","model":"VANS RV7","n_number":"N18GT","name":"POTSDAM ERIC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Georgetown","damage":"DEST","date":"2013-07-29","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ERA13FA340","probable_cause":"The loss of airplane control for reasons that could not be determined due to postcrash fire damage. Contributing to the accident was the pilot\u2019s decision to perform an aerobatic maneuver at low altitude, which did not allow sufficient time for him to regain airplane control.","registration":"N18GT","state":"SC","summary":"Accident on July 29, 2013 at Georgetown, SC: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N18GT is a Frank Owens VANS RV7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gainesville, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 1, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 5, 2023.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Potsdam Eric, an individual, certificate issued March 1, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 5, 2023, 8 years after the 2015 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 RV7-72915 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N18GT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Folland Aircraft Co Ltd GNAT T 1 (serial XS105, cancelled January 11, 2018). 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 N18GT: Accident on July 29, 2013 at Georgetown, SC: fatal, destroyed (1 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"RV7-72915","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1039 NE 4TH ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01405108","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N18GT","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2015,"zip":"326014349"}