Piper PA-18-150
N3685Z is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 16, 2022 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 12, 1960.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-7417
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A42D23 (octal 51026443)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 16, 2022
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- April 8, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · July 12, 1960
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00463333
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Maus Christopher J
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 4040 E 112Th Ave
Anchorage, AK 99516-1549 - Co-owners
- Maus Kala L
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 N3685Z, 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 Maus Christopher J, a co-owned, certificate issued February 16, 2022, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 12, 1960, consistent with the 1960 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-7417 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3685Z 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]
3 NTSB records under N3685Z: Accident on September 28, 2004 at Talkeetna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 16, 2001 at Anchorage, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 27, 1997 at Tok, 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 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-180 · operated under 091
The pilot's selection of an unsuitable landing area, which resulted in a nose over. A factor associated with the accident was tundra.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC04CA116 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-160 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadvertent ground loop during the landing roll.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC01LA114 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-180 · operated under 091
The second pilot/dual student's failure to maintain a proper glidepath, and the pilot-in-command/flight instructor's inadequate supervision. A factor associated with the accident was a downdraft.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC97TA095 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