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N2598P

Piper PA-18-150

Valid Alaska

N2598P is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1955. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bettles Field, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 1990 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated August 10, 1998.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
Serial number
18-4346
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1955
Cruising speed
97 mph
Transponder code
A27C6B (octal 50476153)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 6, 1990
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
Restricted · Other · August 10, 1998
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00293152

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Leonard David J
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 26007
Bettles Field, AK 99726-0007

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.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N2598P, 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 Leonard David J, an individual, certificate issued September 6, 1990, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 10, 1998, 43 years after the 1955 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 18-4346 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N2598P according to the deregistered file. [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 N2598P: Accident on April 27, 1996 at Kotzebue, AK: 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

ANC96LA057Accident on April 27, 1996 at Kotzebue, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 184346

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18 · operated under 091

The pilot's inadequate compensation for the wind conditions. A factor in the accident was the gusty wind conditions.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC96LA057 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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