Piper PA-18S-150
N3982Z is a Piper PA-18S-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1963. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Dubious Adventures LLC, an LLC in Big Lake, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 22, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 19, 1967.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18S-150 · all PA-18S-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-7925
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A4A337 (octal 51121467)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 22, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 22, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 19, 1967
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00690784
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dubious Adventures LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 520055
Big Lake, AK 99652-0055
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 N3982Z, 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 Dubious Adventures LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 22, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 19, 1967, 4 years after the 1963 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 18-7925 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3982Z 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]
2 NTSB records under N3982Z: Accident on April 30, 2026 at Palmer, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 16, 2018 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18S-150 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC26LA034 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA18S · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain pitch control during the landing roll.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA18CA422 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