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N1887A

Piper PA-18-125

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlaska

N1887A 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 Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 20, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated October 18, 1993.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-18-125 · all PA-18-125s and related versions
Serial number
18-1725
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 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
97 mph
Transponder code
A161B2 (octal 50260662)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
January 20, 2024
Expires
January 31, 2031
Last FAA action
January 20, 2024
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 · October 18, 1993
FAA region
AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00502800

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Erickson Paul F
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
PO Box 298074
Wasilla, AK 99629-8074

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N1887A, 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 Erickson Paul F, an individual, certificate issued January 20, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. 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 18-1725 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1887A according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N1887A: Accident on October 26, 1991 at Talkeetna, AK: no 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

ANC92LA011Accident on October 26, 1991 at Talkeetna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 181725

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

THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN AIRSPEED.

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

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