Piper PA-18-105 SPECIAL
N189T is a Piper PA-18-105 SPECIAL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 2 seats. It is registered to New London Taildraggers, a corporation in Lynchburg, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 4, 1987 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 28, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-105 SPECIAL · all PA-18-105 SPECIALs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-2303
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1953
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A163C4 (octal 50261704)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 4, 1987
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 28, 1956
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00632770
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- New London Taildraggers
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1205 Moseley Dr
Lynchburg, VA 24502-1709
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 N189T, 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 New London Taildraggers, a corporation, certificate issued September 4, 1987, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 28, 1956, 3 years after the 1953 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 18-2303 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N189T 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 N189T: Accident on August 14, 2000 at Lynchburg, VA: 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-18-105 · operated under 091
Pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll-out.
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