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N785EL

Ludtke Edwardl THORP T-18

Pending Washington

N785EL is a Ludtke Edwardl THORP T-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1985. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sekiu, Washington. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 12, 1986.

Aircraft

Maker
Ludtke Edwardl
Model
THORP T-18
Serial number
2026
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1985
Transponder code
AAA388 (octal 52521610)

Registration

Status
Registration pending
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
February 6, 2026
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · March 12, 1986
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00834930

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Registration Pending
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 73
Sekiu, WA 98381-0073

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data