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N1265A

Piper PA-18

Valid Alaska

N1265A is a Piper PA-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Delta Junction, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 25, 1957.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-18 · all PA-18s and related versions
Serial number
18-1061
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
97 mph
Transponder code
A06D04 (octal 50066404)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 1, 2020
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · September 25, 1957
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00951196

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Walker Matthew J Trustee
Type
Co-owned
Address
PO Box 953
Delta Junction, AK 99737-0953
Co-owners
Walker Maria M Trustee

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N1265A, 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 Walker Matthew J Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued July 1, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-1061 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1265A 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 N1265A: Accident on September 7, 1987 at Gold King, 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

ANC87LA148Accident on September 7, 1987 at Gold King, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 181061

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

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