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N4159K

Maule MX-7-180B

Valid

N4159K is a Maule MX-7-180B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 17, 1998.

Aircraft

Maker
Maule
Model
MX-7-180B · all MX-7-180Bs and related versions
Serial number
22015C
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-C1F · 200 hp
Seats
5
Year built
1998
Transponder code
A4EA50 (octal 51165120)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 24, 2023
Expires
September 30, 2030
Last FAA action
July 8, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · April 17, 1998
FAA region
—
FAA record id
00283786

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Withheld at the owner's request
Type
Individual
Address

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

1995-09-07Piper PA-18-150 · exported to United Kingdom · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N4159K, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued September 24, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated April 17, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 22015C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4159K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-18-150 (serial 1809108, cancelled September 7, 1995). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N4159K: Accident on November 15, 2006 at Edenville, MI: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

CHI07LA024Accident on November 15, 2006 at Edenville, MI: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Maule MX-7-180B · operated under 091

The pilot's loss of control during landing on a lake resulting in the amphibian aircraft flipping over inverted.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI07LA024 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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