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Piper PA-18
N3485Z is a Piper PA-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Palmer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2010 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 21, 1960.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Wolf Mountain Aviation LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18 · all PA-18s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Piper PA-18 Super Cub family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 18-7317
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A3DE25 (octal 50757045)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 24, 2010
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 21, 1960
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00442703
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Varco John M
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1150 S Colony Way Ste 3 # 147
Palmer, AK 99645-6967
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.
Connections how N3485Z links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-18 Super Cub 3,620 registered
- Piper 44,842 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Wolf Mountain Aviation LLC · charter operator
- Lycoming O-320 series 27,303 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Palmer, AK 546 aircraft registered in this town
- Butte Municipal · AK1
- Warren "Bud" Woods Palmer Municipal · PAQ
- Finger Lake Seaplane Base · 99Z
- Gooding Lake Seaplane Base · 2D3
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-18 Super Cub 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-18 Super Cub 136 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-18 Super Cub 554 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N3485Z, 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 Varco John M, an individual, certificate issued May 24, 2010, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 21, 1960, consistent with the 1960 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-7317 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3485Z 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 N3485Z: Accident on March 12, 1994 at Soldotna, 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 · operated under 091
THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND/FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data