Piper PA-18-150
N4493Z is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 25, 1988 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 23, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-8847
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A56EE5 (octal 51267345)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 25, 1988
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 23, 1969
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00622664
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gates Mary Jill
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3637 West 100
Anchorage, AK 99515
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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 N4493Z, 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 Gates Mary Jill, an individual, certificate issued May 25, 1988, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 23, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-8847 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4493Z 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 N4493Z: Accident on September 1, 1992 at Anchorage, 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 PA-18 · operated under 091
MISJUDGMENT BY THE PILOT TO INSURE ADEQUATE DISTANCE FROM OBJECTS IN THE TAKEOFF AREA, WHICH RESULTED IN DAMAGE TO THE MAIN LANDING GEAR ON TAKEOFF, AND THE UNCONTROLLED GROUND LOOP BY THE PILOT DURING A LANDING WITH THE DAMAGED LANDING GEAR. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE THE STUMP OR LOG OBSTRUCTING THE TAKEOFF AREA, AND THE DISTORTION TO THE LANDING GEAR FOLLOWING THE TAKEOFF AT THE REMOTE LOCATION.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC92FA148 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