Piper PA-18-150
N38BS is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Jack Browns Seaplane Base INC, a corporation in Winter Haven, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 9, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 2, 1967.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-8505
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A4591B (octal 51054433)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 9, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 2, 1967
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00651894
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jack Browns Seaplane Base INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2704 US Highway 92
Winter Haven, FL 33881-9157
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N38BS, 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 Jack Browns Seaplane Base INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 9, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-8505 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N38BS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Perry William L CHRISTEN EAGLE II (serial PERRY0001, cancelled May 6, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N38BS: Accident on March 29, 2025 at Winter Haven, FL: 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-18-150 · operated under 091
The pilot’s inadvertent movement of the fuel selector to a position that restricted fuel flow to the engine, which resulted in the loss of engine power during takeoff.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA25LA207 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