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N1257

Piper PA-18-150

Valid Alaska

N1257 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 an individual in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 9, 1990 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated April 28, 2009.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
Serial number
18-7907
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1963
Cruising speed
97 mph
Transponder code
A06992 (octal 50064622)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 9, 1990
Expires
May 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Other · April 28, 2009
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00970610

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Burns Richard O
Type
Individual
Address
1600 Lacy Loop
Wasilla, AK 99654

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N1257, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Burns Richard O, an individual, certificate issued April 9, 1990, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 28, 2009, 46 years after the 1963 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-7907 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1257 according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N1257: Accident on July 13, 1994 at Newtok, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ANC94LA081Accident on July 13, 1994 at Newtok, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-150 · operated under 091

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Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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