Piper PA-18A
N245KW is a Piper PA-18A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Carson Cubs LLC, an LLC in Yelm, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 10, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 22, 1986.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18A · all PA-18As and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-2495
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A24388 (octal 50441610)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 10, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 22, 1986
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00602867
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Carson Cubs LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 11231 Air Park Ln SE
Yelm, WA 98597-9600
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 N245KW, 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 Carson Cubs LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 10, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-2495 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N245KW 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 N245KW: Accident on May 8, 2017 at Coeur D'Alene, ID: minor 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 PA 18A · operated under 091
The loss of yaw control due to an inadequately compressed rudder swage, which resulted from inadequate maintenance and led to the separation of the forward right rudder cable.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR17LA102 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