Piper PA-18
N1097A is a Piper PA-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Ranch Aero LLC, an LLC in Sterling City, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 23, 1960.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18 · all PA-18s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-685
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A02971 (octal 50024561)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 7, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · May 23, 1960
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00471050
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ranch Aero LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 128
Sterling City, TX 76951-0128
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.
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The public federal record on N1097A, 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 Ranch Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 7, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-685 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1097A 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 N1097A: Accident on May 19, 1995 at Hutchinson, MN: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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 · operated under 091
the pilot's not maintaining aircraft control. A factor was the crosswind condition.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI95LA155 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data