John Topliff PA18-200EXP
N356AW is a John Topliff PA18-200EXP, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Digital Welding Systems INC, a corporation in Los Gatos, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 12, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 2, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- John Topliff
- Model
- PA18-200EXP
- Serial number
- PA-18-200-1-JT
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1A · 200 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A3FB2C (octal 50775454)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 12, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · September 2, 2014
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01117422
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Digital Welding Systems INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 15559 Union Ave # 186
Los Gatos, CA 95032-3904
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N356AW, 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 Digital Welding Systems INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 12, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated September 2, 2014, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial PA-18-200-1-JT for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N356AW 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 N356AW: Accident on June 21, 2023 at Truckee, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: John Topliff PA18-200EXP · operated under 091
The pilot’s loss of directional control on landing roll out, during variable wind conditions.
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- 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