Piper PA-18-125
N1011A is a Piper PA-18-125, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1950. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 27, 2011 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 29, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-125 · all PA-18-125s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-582
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1950
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A00AE7 (octal 50005347)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 27, 2011
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 29, 1956
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00230150
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Machamer John K
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 160 Cold Springs Rd
Gettysburg, PA 17325-7334
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N1011A, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Machamer John K, an individual, certificate issued May 27, 2011, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 29, 1956, 6 years after the 1950 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-582 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1011A according to the deregistered file. [2]
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. [3]
1 NTSB record under N1011A: Accident on May 7, 1990 at Rogerson, ID: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-125 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S INTENTIONAL FLIGHT BELOW SAFE ALTITUDES WHILE ENGAGED IN LOW-ALTITUDE 'BUZZING' ACTIVITIES.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data