Piper PA-18-105 SPECIAL
N5489H is a Piper PA-18-105 SPECIAL, 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 Gakona, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 27, 2000 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated May 28, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-105 SPECIAL · all PA-18-105 SPECIALs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-80
- 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
- A6F93F (octal 51574477)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 27, 2000
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · May 28, 1957
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00373315
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcmahan Charles B
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 110
Gakona, AK 99586-0110 - Co-owners
- Mcmahan Sandra L
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 N5489H, 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 Mcmahan Charles B, a co-owned, certificate issued September 27, 2000, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 28, 1957, 7 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 18-80 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5489H 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]
2 NTSB records under N5489H: Accident on May 10, 2021 at Gakona, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 29, 2000 at Slana, 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-105 SPECIAL · operated under 091
The pilot’s decision to initiate a flight with a failed mixture control cable which resulted in a total loss of engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC21LA040 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-105 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadvertent touch down. A factor associated with the accident was deep snow on the airstrip.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC00LA134 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