Piper PA-18-135
N1258C is a Piper PA-18-135, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Seward, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 13, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 25, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-135 · all PA-18-135s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-2497
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1953
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A069B8 (octal 50064670)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 13, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 25, 1973
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00870610
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Samuel Richard
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 46
Seward, AK 99664-0046 - Co-owners
- Smith Joseph Samuel
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 N1258C, 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 Smith Samuel Richard, a co-owned, certificate issued August 13, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 25, 1973, 20 years after the 1953 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 18-2497 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1258C 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]
3 NTSB records under N1258C: Accident on May 11, 2017 at Seward, AK: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 22, 2016 at Seward, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 13, 2011 at Coldfoot, AK: 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 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA18 · operated under 091
The flight instructor's incorrect brake application during a high-speed taxi with a tailwind, which resulted in a nose-over.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA18 · operated under 091
The pilot receiving instruction's failure to maintain proper airspeed and descent rate, and the flight instructor's delayed remedial action during the landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing and landing gear collapse.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-135 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadvertent application of the right brake pedal during the landing roll, which resulted in a nose-over.
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