Piper PA-18
N1277A is a Piper PA-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1951. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sitka, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 12, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 5, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18 · all PA-18s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-1072
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1951
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A07101 (octal 50070401)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 12, 2019
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 5, 1956
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00810660
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wagner Tyler M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1511 Halibut Point Rd
Sitka, AK 99835-7008
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 N1277A, 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 Wagner Tyler M, an individual, certificate issued July 12, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 5, 1956, 5 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 18-1072 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1277A 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]
2 NTSB records under N1277A: Accident on July 27, 2020 at Fairbanks, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 19, 2002 at Newberg, OR: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA 18 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper decision to depart from an off-airport surface that had standing water, which resulted in a loss of control and impact with terrain.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18 · operated under 091
A warped right brake disc resulting in a veer to the right during the landing roll, and the aircraft's subsequent collision with a fence. A contributing factor was the fence.
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