Piper PA-18-150
N4385Z is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Howe, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 5, 2011 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 20, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-7409044
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-A2B · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A543F5 (octal 51241765)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 5, 2011
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 20, 2011
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00022304
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Finney James R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 805 Mardell Ln
Howe, TX 75459-4458
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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 N4385Z, 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 Finney James R, an individual, certificate issued July 5, 2011, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 20, 2011, 37 years after the 1974 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 18-7409044 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4385Z 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 N4385Z: Accident on July 14, 1999 at Opheim, MT: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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 137
The pilot's failure to maintain an airspeed above stall speed (Vs), resulting in a stall/mush into the terrain during a course reversal at the end of an aerial application run. Factors include hilly terrain and high density altitude.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA99LA118 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