{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2000-08-25","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2011-04-30","city":"HARWOOD","country_code":"US","county_code":"017","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41511","engine_horsepower":200,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"I0360 SER A&C","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"VANS AIRCRAFT INC","kit_model":"RV-8","last_action_date":"2023-01-22","maker":"Schonert Keith W","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SCHONERT KEITH W","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"05607QR","mode_s_code":"50240107","mode_s_hex":"A14047","model":"VANS RV-8","n_number":"N18W","name":"SCHONERT KEITH W","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N18W is a Schonert Keith W VANS RV-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Harwood, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 30, 2011 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 25, 2000.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Schonert Keith W, an individual, certificate issued April 30, 2011, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 25, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80817 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N18W was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech D35 (serial D3409, cancelled March 7, 1997); Crawford Airplane Co A-1 (serial 1-WS, cancelled May 2, 1930). 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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N18W. 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"80817","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"ND","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2892 169TH AVE SE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00755852","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N18W","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2000,"zip":"580429606"}