Piper PA-18-125
N1169A is a Piper PA-18-125, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1951. It has 2 seats. It is registered to K-Air Service LLC, an LLC in Gakona, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 13, 2013 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated August 18, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-125 · all PA-18-125s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-767
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1951
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A04611 (octal 50043021)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 13, 2013
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Other · August 18, 2002
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00841220
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- K-Air Service LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- Mile 42 Nabesna Rd
Hc 63 Box 1415
Gakona, AK 99586
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 N1169A, 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 K-Air Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 13, 2013, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 18, 2002, 51 years after the 1951 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 18-767 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1169A 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 N1169A: Accident on September 18, 2009 at Nabesna, AK: no 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 selection of an unsuitable takeoff area with an unfavorable wind.
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