Piper PA-18-150
N21531 is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1957. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Hans Nelson & Sons Nursery INC, a corporation in Boring, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 1999 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 17, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-5496
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1957
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A1CEF0 (octal 50347360)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 7, 1999
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 17, 1994
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00634822
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hans Nelson & Sons Nursery INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 31020 SE Waybill Rd
Boring, OR 97009-9427
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 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N21531, 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 Hans Nelson & Sons Nursery INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 7, 1999, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 17, 1994, 37 years after the 1957 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 18-5496 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N21531 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182P (serial 18261694, cancelled March 11, 1991). 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 N21531: Accident on January 14, 1989 at Hamilton, OH: 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: Cessna 182P · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S IMPROPER USE OF THE CARBURETOR HEAT CONTROL WHICH RESULTED IN A LOSS OF ENGINE POWER. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WERE CONDITIONS CONDUCIVE TO CARBURETOR ICE.
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