Piper PA-18A
N454Q is a Piper PA-18A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Twin Buttes Ranch INC, a corporation in Shawnee, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 29, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 27, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18A · all PA-18As and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-4902
- 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
- A58256 (octal 51301126)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 29, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 29, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 27, 1993
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00140318
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Twin Buttes Ranch INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1468 Highway 20
Shawnee, WY 82229
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 N454Q, 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 Twin Buttes Ranch INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 29, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 27, 1993, 37 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 18-4902 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N454Q 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 N454Q: Accident on April 1, 1996 at Grand Haven, MI: 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-18A · operated under 091
failure of the dual student to maintain directional control of the airplane during the landing, and inadequate supervision by the flight instructor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI96LA126 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