Piper PA-22-150
N6048D is a Piper PA-22-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Kenai, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 24, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 12, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-22-150 · all PA-22-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 22-4701
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- A7D98F (octal 51754617)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 24, 2020
- Expires
- January 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · December 12, 1956
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00560966
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hightower Samantha Gail
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 1307
Kenai, AK 99611-1307 - Co-owners
- Hoefnagel Michael L G
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.
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The public federal record on N6048D, 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 Hightower Samantha Gail, a co-owned, certificate issued January 24, 2020, expires January 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated December 12, 1956, consistent with the 1956 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 22-4701 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6048D 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 N6048D: Accident on June 24, 1996 at El Paso, TX: 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-22-150 · operated under 091
loss of directional control due to the failure of the tailwheel lock. A factor was the crosswind.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW96LA276 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