Piper PA-18-150
N3908Z is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Wiederkehr Air INC, a corporation in Palmer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 21, 1987 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated August 23, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-7721
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A48651 (octal 51103121)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 21, 1987
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- October 2, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Other · August 23, 1999
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00510604
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wiederkehr Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 1422
Palmer, AK 99645-1422
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 N3908Z, 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 Wiederkehr Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 21, 1987, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 23, 1999, 38 years after the 1961 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-7721 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3908Z 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 N3908Z: Accident on April 15, 1996 at Palmer, 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
improper planning/decision by the pilot, and his selection of unsuitable terrain on which to land a ski equipped airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC96LA050 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