Thorp Air Command - T18.net

In conjunction with our conversation at KY Dam after dinner.

According to the FAA database there are 353 actively registered Thorps (T-18 and S-18) in the US as of 10/12/2010.

Incidentally the FAA provides the entirety of their aircraft records to anyone who wants such a thing.

Here's the breakdown ...

COUNT STATE
60 CA
39 TX
19 FL
19 IL
17 OK
15 WA
14 AZ
13 CO
12 UNK
10 GA
10 OR
10 MI
9 NV
8 MO
7 NC
7 KS
5 NY
5 NJ
5 OH
5 DE
4 WI
4 MN
4 SC
4 IA
4 LA
3 AR
3 AL
3 TN
3 SD
3 ID
3 IN
3 PA
3 UT
2 MD
2 NM
2 AK
2 VA
2 CT
2 NE
2 ME
1 WV
1 ND
1 VT
1 MA
1 KY
1 NH

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Lee Walton
Houston, TX
N51863,N118LW
KEFD

A few other interesting numbers (USA Only) ....

There are;

6439 RV's (4,6,7,8,9,10)

148 Tailwinds (W8, W10)
177 Mustang II

If you take the RV's out of the equation the Thorp is still at the top of the food chain!

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Lee Walton
Houston, TX
N51863,N118LW
KEFD

I would like to find the people in New Jersey who have Thorps. Where do I have to go at the FAA site to get the information? I tried going on the site once and didn't get very far.

Kurt Stofko

Problem is that a lot of Thorps are listed by the builders name and not Thorp T/S-18. In my case it is a Williams-Thorp S-18. I would sugest using different combinations.

Alright, I'm not going to do this for everyone but here are the NJ Thorps.

T-18 N11BD SALE REPORTED 39 PRIMROSE LN BRICKTOWN,NJ8723
T-18 N1255 BATES CRAIG A 5021 WINCHESTER AVE VENTNOR CITY,NJ 08406-2451
T-18 N38DT SCHNEIDER LANCE E 37 3RD AVE LONG BRANCH,NJ 07740-6550
T-18 N529BH HYMEN WILLIAM E 93 SNYDER AVE RAMSEY,NJ 07446-2720
T-18 N64491 HARTMAIER ROBERT S JR 8 HOLLY ROAD MONROE TOWNSHIP,NJ 08831-9670

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Lee Walton
Houston, TX
N51863,N118LW
KEFD

Just looking at the No. of Thorps in the US (353 total). You have more than double the number just in Calfornia than we have here in Australia. We have 29 on the Register in Oz and 4 in NZ. On my list I have 6 Builders in Oz and one in Papua/New Guinea.
As most would be aware I have been getting an Email Address List for Thorp Owners and Builders in Aust. New Zealand and PNG. The Builders are the hard ones to find. SO
If you are building or owner a Thorp or if you are on the list and changed your email address since going on the List could you please let me know by emailing me at grothy@hotkey.net.au so we can have mutual contact in this part of the World. This does not replace any other established support.

Good onya
John Groth

Thank you. I appreciate that. It will help me to connect with other builders, so I can get started on mine.

Kurt

There are 19-20 in Canada depending on whether Lee's plane came to Canada or not.

Jim Mantyla

And add one more to that Canadian number, Jim. MLM isn't officially registered yet, so it won't show in the database. Maybe next Spring.

DW

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In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

Dick,

I assumed yours would cancel out Robert Affleck's plane that was lost in Windsor about a year ago. I heard that there was a guy in Guelph that was considering Lee's plane but haven't heard anything lately.

Lee,

Where did your plane end up?


Jim Mantyla

Your search of Tailwinds did not capture all of them. In a similar study for Tailwinds done about 8-9 years ago, there were 282 of them registered in the FAA database, and that did not include Cougars which are essentially Tailwind clones. Also those who did the search (myself and another fellow) believe that we still missed at least some because of the wide variety of mispellings of "Wittman", and those who had different names for their airplanes than Tailwind, W-10 or W-8. And since then, there are at least couple per year that are finished and flying.

Dave
(Tailwind, Thorp, Pitts & other misc. owner)

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Dave M
Sacramento
ex-T-18 owner

You're right Dave. To be honest I was not as diligent with the Wittman and MII numbers as I was the T-18. I was just trying point out that the T-18 still outnumbers most other Experimentals (sans the Rv's of course).

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Lee Walton
Houston, TX
N51863,N118LW
KEFD

No doubt there are more Thorps than Tailwinds or others (of course RVs excepted). Also tends to be more of them at Oshkosh and other gatherings, and more Thorp gatherings too. Tailwind owners seem to be more quiet and shy types. Though, now that I think about it, there are a lot of Pitts of various types out there......

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Dave M
Sacramento
ex-T-18 owner