Piper PA-18-150
N4157R is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1993. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Mckenna Brothers Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 9, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1809076
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1993
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A4EA10 (octal 51165020)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 31, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 31, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 9, 1993
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00234492
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mckenna Brothers Aircraft LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 240007
Anchorage, AK 99524-0007
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4157R, 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 Mckenna Brothers Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 31, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 9, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1809076 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4157R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32-300 (serial 32-40472, cancelled October 16, 1968). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N4157R: Accident on October 4, 2007 at Hot Springs, AR: 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-18-150 · operated under 091
The total loss of engine power due to inadequate fuel consumption calculations by the pilot resulting in fuel starvation while maneuvering over a lake at too low altitude for a safe landing. An additional cause was the unsuitable terrain encountered during landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI08CA005 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
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