Piper PA-18A-135
N3789A is a Piper PA-18A-135, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bozeman, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 26, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18A-135 · all PA-18A-135s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-3056
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1953
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A45517 (octal 51052427)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 26, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 26, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00710184
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bilton Nicholas J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 317 W Lamme St
Bozeman, MT 59715-3428
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N3789A, 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 Bilton Nicholas J, an individual, certificate issued June 26, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-3056 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3789A 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3789A. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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