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N2261A

Piper PA-18A

Valid Delaware

N2261A is a Piper PA-18A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1952. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Flying Start LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 6, 2012 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 10, 2020.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-18A · all PA-18As and related versions
Serial number
18-1887
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-A2B · 150 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1952
Cruising speed
97 mph
Transponder code
A1F9C7 (octal 50374707)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 6, 2012
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
April 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · January 10, 2020
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00291942

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Flying Start LLC
Type
LLC
Address
3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N2261A, 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 Flying Start LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 6, 2012, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 10, 2020, 68 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-1887 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N2261A 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N2261A. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 August 27, 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