Piper PA-18A 150
N3985P is a Piper PA-18A 150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Valdosta, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 27, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18A 150 · all PA-18A 150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-4745
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A4A396 (octal 51121626)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 27, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 27, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00116958
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Prettyman Walter P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3402 Hart Rd
Valdosta, GA 31601-2600
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 N3985P, 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 Prettyman Walter P, an individual, certificate issued September 27, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-4745 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3985P 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 N3985P: Accident on September 17, 1997 at Bainbridge, GA: 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-18A-150 · operated under 091
the failure of the pilot to see and avoid the tractor resulting in an on ground collision. A factor in this accident was the limited forward visibility from the cockpit of the airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA97LA247 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