Piper PA-18-150
N4330Z is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Ocean Aerial Ads INC, a corporation in Ocean City, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 14, 2009 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated April 13, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-8650
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A530B3 (octal 51230263)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 14, 2009
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Other · April 13, 1989
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00672114
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ocean Aerial Ads INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 813
Ocean City, MD 21843-0813
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 N4330Z, 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 Ocean Aerial Ads INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 14, 2009, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 13, 1989, 21 years after the 1968 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 18-8650 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4330Z 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 N4330Z: Accident on July 19, 2012 at Berlin, MD: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Accident on March 24, 2007 at Myrtle Beach, SC: 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-18-150 · operated under 091
Pilot incapacitation of unknown origin, which resulted in the airplane’s loss of control and an inadvertent aerodynamic stall/spin.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA12FA465 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-150 · operated under 091
The loss of engine power due to undetermined reasons. A factor in the accident was the pilot's failure to follow emergency procedures when he failed to jettison the advertising banner prior to his forced landing in water.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL07CA055 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