Piper PA-14
N4276H is a Piper PA-14, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Tailwind Aviation INC, a corporation in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 4, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 13, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-14 · all PA-14s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1480
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 82 mph
- Transponder code
- A518D2 (octal 51214322)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 4, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · July 13, 1956
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00851914
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tailwind Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 873686
Wasilla, AK 99687-3686
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 N4276H, 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 Tailwind Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 4, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 13, 1956, 8 years after the 1948 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1480 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4276H 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]
2 NTSB records under N4276H: Accident on September 23, 2021 at Chickaloon, AK: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on March 21, 1986 at Memphis, TN: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-14 · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power during takeoff for reasons that could not be determined based on the available information.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC21LA096 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-14 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL86FLT05 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