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N8518Q

Seifert Vernon EL BUTEO

Valid Alaska

N8518Q is a Seifert Vernon EL BUTEO, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Naknek, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 28, 1983.

Aircraft

Maker
Seifert Vernon
Model
EL BUTEO
Serial number
1
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
ABAE8E (octal 52727216)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 9, 2022
Expires
August 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 25, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · October 28, 1983
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00832771

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wilson Richard J
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 237
Naknek, AK 99633-0237

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

1979-11-06Cessna A185F · exported to Pakistan · Valid registration

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