Piper PA-18-150
N57617 is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Elijah Air LLC, an LLC in Bethel, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 6, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 29, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-7709125
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A7674E (octal 51663516)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 6, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 29, 1977
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00180706
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elijah Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 2509
Bethel, AK 99559-2509
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 N57617, 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 Elijah Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 6, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 29, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-7709125 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N57617 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild M-62A (serial T43-5294, cancelled October 11, 1955). 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]
4 NTSB records under N57617: Accident on April 9, 2025 at Bethel, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 3, 1996 at Cantwell, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 1, 1984 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 4
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-150 · operated under 091
The pilot's delayed decision to abort the takeoff when the airplane was not attaining sufficient airspeed for takeoff and subsequently departed the end of the lake and collided with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC25LA033 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate compensation for the crosswind conditions. A factor in the accident was the crosswind.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC96LA094 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-150 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC84LA161 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-150 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC82DAG19 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