Piper PA-18
N1953V 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 co-owned owners in Hillsboro, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2005 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 8, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18 · all PA-18s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-2174
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1952
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A17D93 (octal 50276623)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 14, 2005
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 8, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00663272
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aarestad Potato CO LTD
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 472
Hillsboro, ND 58045-0472 - Co-owners
- Valley Tissue Culture INC
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N1953V, 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 Aarestad Potato CO LTD, a co-owned, certificate issued February 14, 2005, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 8, 1956, 4 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 18-2174 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1953V was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech V35A (serial D8995, cancelled March 8, 1989); Cessna 120 (serial 14164, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N1953V: Accident on April 4, 1987 at Liberal, KS: 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: Beech 35A · 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