Piper PA-18A
N3279Z is a Piper PA-18A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Douglass, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 28, 2003 and expires on October 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18A · all PA-18As and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-7199
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A38BFC (octal 50705774)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 28, 2003
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00752013
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lay Lawrence W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 21317 SW Purity Springs Rd
Douglass, KS 67039-8590
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 N3279Z, 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 Lay Lawrence W, an individual, certificate issued July 28, 2003, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-7199 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3279Z 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 N3279Z: Accident on October 2, 2002 at Garden City, KS: fatal, destroyed (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-18A · operated under 091
The inadequate preflight planning/preparation and visual flight rules flight into instrument meteorological conditions by the pilot. The clouds, mist, and night conditions were contributing factors.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI03FA003 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