Piper PA-18-125
N1602A is a Piper PA-18-125, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Palatine Bridge, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 4, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated April 20, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-125 · all PA-18-125s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-1240
- 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
- A0F44D (octal 50172115)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 4, 2021
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · April 20, 1956
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00381930
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bent James L JR DBA
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 106 Trailer St # 4
Palatine Bridge, NY 13428-2618 - Co-owners
- Wings And Things
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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 N1602A, 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 Bent James L JR DBA, an individual, certificate issued December 4, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-1240 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1602A 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 N1602A: Accident on October 24, 2007 at Pilot Point, AK: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 9, 1998 at Palmer, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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 inadequate compensation for wind conditions during an attempted go-around, which resulted in a loss of control, and an in-flight collision with terrain. Factors associated with the accident were gusty, high winds.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to identify an unsafe/hazardous condition. A related factor was the ditch.
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