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N2353X

Piper PA-18A

Valid Montana

N2353X is a Piper PA-18A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 2 seats. It is registered to B R Trucking LLC, an LLC in Cut Bank, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2008 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 5, 2001.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-18A · all PA-18As and related versions
Serial number
18-4239
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1956
Cruising speed
97 mph
Transponder code
A21DEA (octal 50416752)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 12, 2008
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · September 5, 2001
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00943974

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
B R Trucking LLC
Type
LLC
Address
PO Box 1127
Cut Bank, MT 59427-1127

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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 1

1984-01-10Cessna 182H · Administratively canceled

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N2353X, 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 B R Trucking LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 12, 2008, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 5, 2001, 45 years after the 1956 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 18-4239 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2353X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182H (serial 18256253, cancelled January 10, 1984). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N2353X: Accident on April 5, 1983 at Ruth, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

LAX83LA176Accident on April 5, 1983 at Ruth, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 182156253

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182H · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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