Piper PA-18A 150
N5972D is a Piper PA-18A 150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Aufderheide Flying Service INC, a corporation in Dewitt, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 1969 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated November 20, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18A 150 · all PA-18A 150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-5432
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A7BA0A (octal 51735012)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 1969
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · November 20, 1956
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00542035
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aufderheide Flying Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1475 Mary Louise Rd
Dewitt, AR 72042-2996
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N5972D, 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 Aufderheide Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 29, 1969, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated November 20, 1956, consistent with the 1956 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-5432 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5972D 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5972D. 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