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Piper PA-18-150
N5884D is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Gakona, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 17, 2012 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 29, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Piper PA-18 Super Cub family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 18-5308
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A79688 (octal 51713210)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 17, 2012
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · October 29, 1956
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00381825
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcmahan Johnny W
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 184
Gakona, AK 99586-0184 - Co-owners
- Mcmahan Johana 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.
Connections how N5884D links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-18 Super Cub 3,620 registered
- Piper 44,842 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-320 series 27,303 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Gakona, AK 26 aircraft registered in this town
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-18 Super Cub 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-18 Super Cub 136 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-18 Super Cub 554 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N5884D, 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 Johnny W, a co-owned, certificate issued September 17, 2012, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated October 29, 1956, consistent with the 1956 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-5308 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5884D 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 N5884D: Accident on May 5, 2016 at Mccarthy, AK: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA 18-150 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed while maneuvering at a low altitude, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall from which he could not recover.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data