Piper PA-15
N4579H is a Piper PA-15, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Everett, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 19, 1955.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-15 · all PA-15s 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-15 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
- 15-353
- 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 · Lycoming 0-145B SERIES · 65 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- A58FB8 (octal 51307670)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 12, 2020
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · August 19, 1955
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00422974
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Davis Rick L
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4732 Glenhaven Dr
Everett, WA 98203-1739 - Co-owners
- Kinchen Curtis B
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 N4579H links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-15 165 registered
- Piper 44,842 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-145B series 538 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Everett, WA 114 aircraft registered in this town
- Seattle Paine Field International · PAE
- Washington 10,644 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-15 11 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-15 2 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-15 112 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-145B series 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-145B series 3 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N4579H, 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 Davis Rick L, a co-owned, certificate issued February 12, 2020, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15-353 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4579H 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 N4579H: Accident on August 28, 2010 at Duvall, WA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-15 · operated under 091
An in-flight collision with a bird while maneuvering.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data