Piper PA-18-105 SPECIAL
N288T is a Piper PA-18-105 SPECIAL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Torrington, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 13, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 6, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-105 SPECIAL · all PA-18-105 SPECIALs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-2402
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1953
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A2ED5C (octal 50566534)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 13, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 13, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 6, 1965
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00451355
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Becker James
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12643 Road 47
Torrington, WY 82240-7902
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 N288T, 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 Becker James, an individual, certificate issued December 13, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 6, 1965, 12 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 18-2402 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N288T 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 N288T: Accident on October 16, 1988 at Marion, NE: 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-18 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC89LA006 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