Piper PA-18-135
N5589J is a Piper PA-18-135, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Frank Investments INC, a corporation in Austin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 29, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 25, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-135 · all PA-18-135s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-3332
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1954
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A720BF (octal 51620277)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 29, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 29, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 25, 1980
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00250116
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Frank Investments INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3503 Misty Creek Dr
Austin, TX 78735-1405
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5589J, 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 Frank Investments INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 29, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 25, 1980, 26 years after the 1954 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 18-3332 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5589J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32-260 (serial 32-1049, cancelled December 6, 1971). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5589J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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