Piper PA-18S-150
N4387A is a Piper PA-18S-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Nikiski, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 14, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18S-150 · all PA-18S-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-4795
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A54424 (octal 51242044)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 8, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 8, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 14, 1957
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00732294
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcgahan Cody
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 7100
Nikiski, AK 99635-7100
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 N4387A, 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 Mcgahan Cody, an individual, certificate issued November 8, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated March 14, 1957, consistent with the 1956 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-4795 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4387A 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 N4387A: Accident on July 23, 2017 at Sterling, AK: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA18S · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control while landing in crosswind conditions.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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