Piper PA-18-150
N4043E is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 2 seats. It is registered to L C Hanson CO, a corporation in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 3, 2007 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-7809049
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A4BE43 (octal 51137103)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 3, 2007
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00051114
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- L C Hanson CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2969 Airport Rd
Helena, MT 59601-1201
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 N4043E, 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 L C Hanson CO, a corporation, certificate issued July 3, 2007, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-7809049 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4043E 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 N4043E: Accident on May 26, 1986 at Decker, MT: minor 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 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN86LA143 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