Piper PA-18-135
N4988H is a Piper PA-18-135, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Palatine Bridge, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 17, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a special flight permit airworthiness certificate for ferry flight for repairs, alterations, maintenance or storage, dated September 1, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-135 · all PA-18-135s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-1955
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A63148 (octal 51430510)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 17, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 17, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Special flight permit · Ferry flight for repairs, alterations, maintenance or storage · September 1, 1999
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00862772
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bent James L JR DBA
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 106 Trailer St Box 4
Palatine Bridge, NY 13428 - Co-owners
- Wings And Things
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N4988H, 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 Bent James L JR DBA, an individual, certificate issued January 17, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Special flight permit certificate for ferry flight for repairs, alterations, maintenance or storage; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-1955 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4988H 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N4988H. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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