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N1738A

Piper PA-18

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlaska

N1738A is a Piper PA-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 18, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated August 6, 2013. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-18 · all PA-18s and related versions
Serial number
18-1311
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-A2B · 150 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
97 mph
Transponder code
A127C3 (octal 50223703)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
September 18, 2023
Expires
September 30, 2030
Last FAA action
September 18, 2023
Airworthiness
RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · OtherFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 6, 2013
FAA region
AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00772360

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lyall Gregory S
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
3240 Seaport Cir
Anchorage, AK 99515-2737
Co-owners
Lyall Stephen M

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 1

2026-09-01Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

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The public federal record on N1738A, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Lyall Gregory S, a co-owned, certificate issued September 18, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Restricted certificate for other; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-1311 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1738A according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 1, 2026). [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N1738A: Accident on April 22, 1989 at Talkeetna, AK: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ANC89LA063Accident on April 22, 1989 at Talkeetna, AK: minor injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18 · operated under 091

THE PILOT'S CONTINUED VFR FLIGHT INTO INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS AND THE INADVERTANT STALL/MUSH OF THE AIRPLANE. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS ARE THE PILOT'S OVERCONFIDENCE, SELF-INDUCED PRESSURE, MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN AND WHITEOUT CONDITIONS.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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