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N8518F

Boyle Douglas Kane PTERODACTYL NFL

Valid Louisiana

N8518F is a Boyle Douglas Kane PTERODACTYL NFL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Ida, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 2011 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 6, 1981.

Aircraft

Maker
Boyle Douglas Kane
Model
PTERODACTYL NFL
Serial number
80NFL69
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
1
Year built
1980
Transponder code
ABAE85 (octal 52727205)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 9, 2011
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · February 6, 1981
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00872771

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Arnold Richard A
Type
Individual
Address
18805 Highway 71
Ida, LA 71044-8819

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1967-07-30Bell 47G-3B-1 · Valid registration

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