Piper PA-18
N5478H is a Piper PA-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1950. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in North Pole, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 29, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated May 17, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18 · all PA-18s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-70
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1950
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A6F565 (octal 51572545)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 29, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · May 17, 1956
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00093255
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Panko Jessica E
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 56681
North Pole, AK 99705-1681 - Co-owners
- Monberg Robert M
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 N5478H, 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 Panko Jessica E, a co-owned, certificate issued March 29, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 17, 1956, 6 years after the 1950 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 18-70 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5478H 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 N5478H: Accident on May 16, 2020 at Mcgrath, AK: 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 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during takeoff in gusting wind conditions, which resulted in a collision with trees and impacted with the ground.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC20CA047 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