Piper PA-18 105
N316T is a Piper PA-18 105, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Panther Rock LLC, an LLC in Fluvanna, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 6, 2004 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 29, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18 105 · all PA-18 105s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-2430
- 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
- A35EC4 (octal 50657304)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 6, 2004
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · November 29, 1957
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00851613
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Panther Rock LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1201 R Miller Rd
Fluvanna, TX 79517-3027
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 N316T, 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 Panther Rock LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 6, 2004, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 29, 1957, 4 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 18-2430 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N316T 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 N316T: Accident on February 6, 1998 at Sheridan, WY: 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-18-105 · operated under 091
the pilot's improper use of carburetor heat, which resulted in loss of engine power due to carburetor ice. Factors relating to the accident were: the carburetor icing (weather) condition, and the lack of a suitable area for an emergency landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW98LA125 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
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