Piper PA-18-150
N3984Z is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1963. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Refugio Soaring Circle INC, a corporation in Refugio, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 1972 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 26, 1963. 2 documents are on file: 2 × bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-7930
- 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
- A4A37D (octal 51121575)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 1972
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 26, 1963
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00050794
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Refugio Soaring Circle INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- Box 366
Refugio, TX 78377
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Documents on file 2
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N3984Z, 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 Refugio Soaring Circle INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 28, 1972, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 26, 1963, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-7930 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3984Z according to the deregistered file. [2]
2 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 4, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 16, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3984Z. 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