Piper PA-18
N2518A is a Piper PA-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated June 22, 1995.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18 · all PA-18s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-2148
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1953
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A25EA6 (octal 50457246)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 22, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Other · June 22, 1995
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00500583
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hamblen Marc V
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 950 W Selina Ln
Wasilla, AK 99654-7982 - Co-owners
- Hamblen Deanne B
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 N2518A, 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 Hamblen Marc V, a co-owned, certificate issued September 22, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 22, 1995, 42 years after the 1953 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-2148 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2518A 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]
2 NTSB records under N2518A: Accident on April 19, 2016 at Palmer, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 22, 1990 at Delta Junction, AK: no 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA 18 · operated under 091
The pilot's decision to land on unsuitable terrain and incorrect brake application during the landing roll, which resulted in a nose over.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-150 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE REMOVAL OF SNOW AND ICE PRIOR TO TAKEOFF.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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