Piper PA-18-150
N3947Z is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1962. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wood Lake, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2011 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated April 16, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-7805
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1962
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A4950A (octal 51112412)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 17, 2011
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · April 16, 1975
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00200704
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Winkle James L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 787
Wood Lake, NE 69221-0787
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 N3947Z, 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 Van Winkle James L, an individual, certificate issued May 17, 2011, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 16, 1975, 13 years after the 1962 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 18-7805 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3947Z 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 N3947Z: Accident on March 16, 2001 at Sidney, NE: 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 failure to maintain directional control during the landing. A factor relating to this accident was the berm.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI01LA105 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