Piper PA-18A 150
N518SW is a Piper PA-18A 150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1955. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in White Salmon, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 12, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18A 150 · all PA-18A 150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-4389
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1955
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A680CC (octal 51500314)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 20, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 12, 1974
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00743566
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gilchrist Robert T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 41 May Rd
White Salmon, WA 98672-8012
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N518SW, 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 Gilchrist Robert T, an individual, certificate issued June 20, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 12, 1974, 19 years after the 1955 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 18-4389 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N518SW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 58 (serial TH260, cancelled October 23, 1990). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N518SW: Accident on February 27, 2024 at Dallesport, WA: serious injuries, minor 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-18A 150 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to disengage the ignition prior to moving the propeller by hand resulting in the inadvertent starting of the engine.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR24LA099 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
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