Piper PA-18A
N11284 is a Piper PA-18A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Plains, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 20, 2009 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 10, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18A · all PA-18As and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-4737
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-A2B · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A0372E (octal 50033456)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 20, 2009
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 10, 2010
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01022438
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Horton Rick S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 1505
Plains, MT 59859-1505
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 3
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N11284, 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 Horton Rick S, an individual, certificate issued February 20, 2009, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 10, 2010, 54 years after the 1956 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 18-4737 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N11284 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Raytheon Aircraft Company 1900D (serial UE-280, cancelled November 29, 2006); Cessna 150L (serial 15075298, cancelled March 4, 1993); Aeronca C-3 (serial A-116, cancelled November 29, 1940). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N11284: Accident on August 7, 1990 at Brighton, MI: serious injuries, destroyed. 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: Cessna 150 · operated under 091
A LOSS OF ENGINE POWER DUE TO INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION.
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
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