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Piper PA-18-150
N4431Z is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Regent Trust CORP Trustee, a corporation in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 1, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Piper PA-18 Super Cub family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 188769
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A55855 (octal 51254125)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 1, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00732464
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Regent Trust CORP Trustee
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7804 e Funston St Ste 210
Wichita, KS 67207-3107
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.
Connections how N4431Z links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-18 Super Cub 3,620 registered
- Piper 44,848 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Regent Trust CORP Trustee 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Wichita, KS 1,309 aircraft registered in this town
- Beech Factory Airport · BEC
- Wichita Dwight D Eisenhower Ntl Airport · ICT
- Cessna Acft Field · CEA
- Colonel James Jabara Airport · AAO
- 2 more landing places in town
- Kansas 5,731 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-18 Super Cub 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-18 Super Cub 136 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-18 Super Cub 482 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N4431Z, 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 Regent Trust CORP Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued November 1, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 188769 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4431Z 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 N4431Z: Accident on June 22, 1990 at Big Lake, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on February 7, 1986 at Wasilla, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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-18-160 · operated under 091
LOSS OF ENGINE POWER FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS RESULTING IN AN OFF AIRPORT LANDING IN A DITCH.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data