Piper PA-18-150
N116BH is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1963. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Bighorn Airways INC, a corporation in Sheridan, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 28, 1986 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 26, 1963.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-8041
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A0429E (octal 50041236)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 28, 1986
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · September 26, 1963
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00403596
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bighorn Airways INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 4037
Sheridan, WY 82801-1237
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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 N116BH, 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 Bighorn Airways INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 28, 1986, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated September 26, 1963, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-8041 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N116BH 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 N116BH: Accident on August 10, 1993 at Sheridan, WY: 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-18-150 · operated under 091
THE DUAL STUDENT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL. A FACTOR CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE INSTRUCTOR'S DELAYED REMEDIAL ACTION.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA93LA173 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
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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