Piper PA-18A 150
N2581P is a Piper PA-18A 150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1955. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Palmer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 1, 2009 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 18, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18A 150 · all PA-18A 150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-4323
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1955
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A277BF (octal 50473677)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 1, 2009
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 18, 1956
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00290803
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wick Melvin D
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 8091 E Palmer Wasilla Hwy
Palmer, AK 99645-8468 - Co-owners
- Wick Stanley G
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 N2581P, 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 Wick Melvin D, a co-owned, certificate issued October 1, 2009, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated May 18, 1956, consistent with the 1955 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-4323 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2581P 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 N2581P: Accident on June 30, 2008 at Wasilla, AK: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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-18 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control while landing in a gusty crosswind.
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 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