Piper PA-18
N1890A is a Piper PA-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1952. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Johnson Air LLC, an LLC in Anselmo, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 13, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 16, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18 · all PA-18s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-1723
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1952
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A16474 (octal 50262164)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 13, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 13, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 16, 1957
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00602770
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Johnson Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 43698 Dr 818
Anselmo, NE 68813-7009
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 N1890A, 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 Johnson Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 13, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 16, 1957, 5 years after the 1952 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-1723 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1890A 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 N1890A: Accident on February 29, 2020 at Santa Barbara, CA: 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 18 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed during the approach, which resulted in a rapid descent rate, hard landing, and nose-over.
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