Piper PA-18-150
N278Z is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Palmer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 11, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated August 2, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-8109030
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A2C673 (octal 50543163)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 11, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Other · August 2, 2004
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00250173
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kennerson Robert L
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 1161
Palmer, AK 99645-1161 - Co-owners
- Kennerson Tina R
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 N278Z, 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 Kennerson Robert L, a co-owned, certificate issued May 11, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 2, 2004, 23 years after the 1981 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 18-8109030 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N278Z 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 N278Z: Accident on February 11, 2010 at King Cove, 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-150 · operated under PUBU
A total loss of engine power due to the pilot's failure to use carburetor heat in conditions conducive to carburetor ice.
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