Piper PA-18 105
N243T is a Piper PA-18 105, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Aberdeen, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 26, 2011 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18 105 · all PA-18 105s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-2357
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1953
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A23CCD (octal 50436315)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 26, 2011
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00952602
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hillestad Darrell
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 1703
Aberdeen, SD 57402-1703
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.
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The public federal record on N243T, 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 Hillestad Darrell, an individual, certificate issued January 26, 2011, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-2357 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N243T according to the deregistered file. [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 N243T: Accident on June 24, 1986 at Sloan, IA: serious 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: Piper PA18 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC86FCD02 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data