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N2281S

Moore David G PA-18/L-21 REPLICA

Valid Alaska

N2281S is a Moore David G PA-18/L-21 REPLICA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 29, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 28, 2015.

Aircraft

Maker
Moore David G
Model
PA-18/L-21 REPLICA
Serial number
TC0604103
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A4A · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2015
Kit
TURBINE CUBS OF WY LLC PA-18 REPLICA
Transponder code
A20145 (octal 50400505)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 29, 2020
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · September 28, 2015
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
01184216

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hyce Richard A
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 876017
Wasilla, AK 99687-6017

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 2

1994-07-21Moore David/Cristy MITCHELL U-2 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1981-12-31Cessna TR182 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N2281S, 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 Hyce Richard A, an individual, certificate issued April 29, 2020, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 28, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TC0604103 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2281S was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Moore David/Cristy MITCHELL U-2 (serial PU636, cancelled July 21, 1994); Cessna TR182 (serial R18201321, cancelled December 31, 1981). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N2281S. 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 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