Piper PA-18-150
N5616Y is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Bigfoot Aviation LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 2017 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 28, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-8287
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A72DE2 (octal 51626742)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 20, 2017
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 28, 1965
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00835380
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bigfoot Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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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 N5616Y, 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 Bigfoot Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 20, 2017, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 28, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-8287 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5616Y 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 N5616Y: Accident on August 27, 2014 at Beluga, 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 18-150 · operated under 091
The pilot's selection of an unsuitable takeoff area, resulting in an inflight collision with vegetation/brush during takeoff.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC14CA070 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