Piper PA-18-125
N16688 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 Water Wings LLC, an LLC in Buckley, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 20, 1988.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-125 · all PA-18-125s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-875
- 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
- A10B89 (octal 50205611)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 6, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 6, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 20, 1988
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00212190
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Water Wings LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 11911 252Nd Ave E
Buckley, WA 98321-9072
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 N16688, 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 Water Wings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 6, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-875 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N16688 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 N16688: Accident on June 25, 1985 at Bellevue, WA: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18 · operated under 091
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
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