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Cub Crafters PA18-150
N143CC is a Cub Crafters PA18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Aerial Messages Leasing CO, a corporation in Longwood, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 9, 2022 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 26, 2003.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cub Crafters
- Model
- PA18-150 · all PA18-150s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Cub Crafters PA18 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 9956CC
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A0AE0A (octal 50127012)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 9, 2022
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- June 6, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 26, 2003
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00016239
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aerial Messages Leasing CO
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 215 Jasmine Ln
Longwood, FL 32779-4908
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N143CC links to the rest of the register
- Cub Crafters PA18 16 registered
- Cub Crafters 49 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360 series 1,067 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Aerial Messages Leasing CO 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Longwood, FL 70 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,711 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Cub Crafters PA18 8 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-360 series 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360 series 425 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N143CC, 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 Aerial Messages Leasing CO, a corporation, certificate issued April 9, 2022, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 26, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9956CC for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N143CC 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 N143CC: Accident on March 1, 2024 at Edgewater, FL: 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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cub Crafters PA18-150 · operated under 091
Maintenance personnel’s failure to detect the worn aileron cable during the most recent inspections, which resulted in the separation of the aileron control cable and a subsequent loss of airplane control during landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data