Piper PA-11
N4620M is a Piper PA-11, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 29, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-11 · all PA-11s 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-11 Cub Special 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
- 11-124
- 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 · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A5A36D (octal 51321555)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 19, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 19, 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 · June 29, 1956
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00563094
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gatten Brett L
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3910 e Tambert Dr
Wasilla, AK 99654-4529
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 N4620M links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-11 Cub Special 443 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
- Continental A65 / C65 series 7,965 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Wasilla, AK 1,274 aircraft registered in this town
- Wasilla Airport · IYS
- Blodgett Lake Seaplane Base · D75
- Cottonwood Lake Seaplane Base · 3H3
- Island Lake Seaplane Base · 29A
- 6 more landing places in town
- Alaska 9,146 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-11 Cub Special 17 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-11 Cub Special 8 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-11 Cub Special 179 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N4620M, 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 Gatten Brett L, an individual, certificate issued August 19, 2023, expires August 31, 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 11-124 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4620M 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 N4620M: Accident on March 28, 1989 at Beluga Mountain, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-11 · operated under 091
PILOT'S SELECTION OF UNSUITABLE TERRAIN FOR AN OFF-AIRPORT LANDING AND TAKEOFF. THE UNEVEN TERRAIN (WITH A SNOW BERM) WAS A RELATED FACTOR.
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