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N54247

Piper PA-18-150

Valid Alaska

N54247 is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 12, 2016 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 8, 1976.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
Serial number
18-7609049
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1976
Cruising speed
97 mph
Transponder code
A6E25E (octal 51561136)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 12, 2016
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · March 8, 1976
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00813085

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hunter David S
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 879759
Wasilla, AK 99687-9759

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N54247, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Hunter David S, an individual, certificate issued January 12, 2016, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated March 8, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-7609049 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N54247 according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

2 NTSB records under N54247: Accident on June 14, 1998 at Nikiski, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 4, 1982 at Near King Salmo, AK: no injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 2

ANC98LA072Accident on June 14, 1998 at Nikiski, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-160 · operated under 091

The pilot's use of excessive brake application during landing roll.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC98LA072 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

ANC83LA003Accident on October 4, 1982 at Near King Salmo, AK: no injuries, destroyed.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC83LA003 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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