Piper PA-18-135
N15558 is a Piper PA-18-135, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Nighthawk Air Systems INC, a corporation in Marion, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-135 · all PA-18-135s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-3876
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A0DFEA (octal 50157752)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 6, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 6, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01400087
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nighthawk Air Systems INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 102 Windsock Ln
Marion, TX 78124-6564
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.
Earlier use of this number 3
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N15558, 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 Nighthawk Air Systems INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 6, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-3876 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N15558 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 287325097, cancelled April 20, 1992); Douglas DC3C-S1C3G (serial 9659, cancelled July 25, 1949); Consolidated B-24D (serial 41-23721, cancelled October 2, 1944). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N15558: Accident on July 2, 1989 at Bulverde, TX: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28 · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO OBTAIN AND/OR MAINTAIN SUFFICIENT AIRSPEED TO CLIMB AFTER TAKEOFF AND HIS DELAY IN ABORTING THE TAKEOFF. A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR WAS THE ROUGH/UNEVEN TERRAIN.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW89LA125 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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