Piper PA-18-135
N518GM is a Piper PA-18-135, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Mountain Escape LLC, an LLC in Pullman, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 20, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 27, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-135 · all PA-18-135s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-2643
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-B2B · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1953
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A67FC9 (octal 51477711)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 20, 2020
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 27, 2006
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00571530
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mountain Escape LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 6952 State Route 270
Pullman, WA 99163-8717
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 N518GM, 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 Mountain Escape LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 20, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 27, 2006, 53 years after the 1953 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-2643 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N518GM 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 N518GM: Accident on January 12, 2007 at Maricopa, AZ: no 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 18-150 · operated under 091
The excessive brake application during landing which resulted in a nose over.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA07CA045 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