Piper PA-18-150
N4416A is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Northwood, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 2, 1998 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 30, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-5161
- 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
- A5517F (octal 51250577)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 2, 1998
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- June 26, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 30, 2004
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00297241
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Altendorf Richard C
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 521
Northwood, ND 58267-0521 - Co-owners
- Altendorf Penny R
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N4416A, 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 Altendorf Richard C, a co-owned, certificate issued July 2, 1998, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 30, 2004, 48 years after the 1956 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 18-5161 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4416A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-150 (serial 223744, cancelled April 24, 1992). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N4416A: Accident on April 15, 1991 at Las Vegas, NV: serious 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 PA22-150 · operated under 091
THAT THE PILOT IMPROPERLY SELECTED THE FUEL TANK THAT DID NOT CONTAIN ANY FUEL AND HIS SUBSEQUENT FAILURE TO MAINTAIN AIRSPEED.
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
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