Piper PA-18
N3982P is a Piper PA-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Black Industries LLC, an LLC in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 14, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated January 3, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18 · all PA-18s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-4742
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A4A32D (octal 51121455)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 14, 2022
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · January 3, 1956
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00590834
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Black Industries LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 415 N Benton Ave
Helena, MT 59601-5041
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N3982P, 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 Black Industries LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 14, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated January 3, 1956, consistent with the 1956 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-4742 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3982P 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 N3982P. 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