Piper PA-18-150
N4878A is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 26, 2001 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 23, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-4977
- 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
- A6060B (octal 51403013)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 26, 2001
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 23, 1956
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00157018
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mallek Edward J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 82452
Fairbanks, AK 99708-2452
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 N4878A, 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 Mallek Edward J, an individual, certificate issued November 26, 2001, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 23, 1956, consistent with the 1956 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-4977 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4878A 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 N4878A: Accident on July 3, 1990 at Gakona, AK: serious 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
THE PILOT INADVERTENTLY STALLED THE AIRPLANE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC90LA109 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