Piper PA-18-150
N5963Z 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 co-owned owners in Gakona, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 20, 1977 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 26, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-8260
- 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
- A7B68A (octal 51733212)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 20, 1977
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 26, 1965
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00622015
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcmahan Charles B
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 110
Gakona, AK 99586-0110 - Co-owners
- Mcmahan Sandy L
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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 N5963Z, 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 July 20, 1977, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 26, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-8260 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5963Z 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 N5963Z: Accident on May 10, 1984 at Gakona, 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC84LA064 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