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N45552

Piper PA-18-150

Valid Delaware

N45552 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 Aerospace Trust Management LLC Trustee, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 13, 2005.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
Serial number
18-8563
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
97 mph
Transponder code
A587D1 (octal 51303721)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 30, 2025
Expires
January 31, 2032
Last FAA action
January 30, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · December 13, 2005
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00090239

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Aerospace Trust Management LLC Trustee
Type
LLC
Address
1013 Centre Rd Ste 403A
Wilmington, DE 19805-1270

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

1993-12-28Cessna 150M · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N45552, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Aerospace Trust Management LLC Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued January 30, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-8563 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N45552 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150M (serial 15076969, cancelled December 28, 1993). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N45552: Accident on August 10, 1993 at Julian, CA: serious injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

LAX93LA317Accident on August 10, 1993 at Julian, CA: serious injuries, destroyed.serial on NTSB record: 15076969

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150 · operated under 091

THE PILOT'S POOR INFLIGHT DECISION IN SELECTING AN ALTITUDE INSUFFICIENT TO ENSURE ADEQUATE TERRAIN CLEARANCE.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX93LA317 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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