{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1985-10-04","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-11-10","city":"MIDLAND","country_code":"US","county_code":"329","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41508","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-11-10","maker":"Wight Carroll H","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"WIGHT CARROLL H","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"89510K5","mode_s_code":"50736351","mode_s_hex":"A3BCE9","model":"THORP T-18","n_number":"N34W","name":"MCINTURF TY A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N34W is a Wight Carroll H THORP T-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Midland, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 10, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 4, 1985.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Mcinturf Ty A, an individual, certificate issued November 10, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 926 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N34W was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: North American NA-265-40 (serial 282-47, cancelled April 23, 1974); Lincoln PT (serial 327, cancelled December 21, 1932). 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 N34W. 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"926","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"311 S LOOP 250 W APT 4208","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00732403","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N34W","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"797032151"}