Piper PA-18-150
N645DT is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Scenic Mountain Air INC, a corporation in Moose Pass, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 2003 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 23, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-8309022
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A8782B (octal 52074053)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 12, 2003
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 23, 1982
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00550622
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scenic Mountain Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 4
Moose Pass, AK 99631-0004
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 N645DT, 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 Scenic Mountain Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 12, 2003, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 23, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-8309022 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N645DT 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]
2 NTSB records under N645DT: Accident on June 18, 2024 at Moose Pass, AK: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). Accident on October 13, 2019 at Moose Pass, 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-150 · operated under 091
On June 18, 2024, about 1400 Alaska daylight time, a float-equipped Piper PA-18-150 airplane, N645DT, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Moose Pass, Alaska. The instructor pilot and the pilot receiving instruction were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. According to the operator, Alaska Float Ratings, the pilot receiving instruction, seated in the front seat, and the instructor pilot, seated in the rear seat, departed Trail Lake, Moose Pass, about 1245, with an anticipated return tim…
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC24FA052 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA18 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper approach, which resulted in his failure to maintain clearance from a tree while landing in dusk conditions, and his subsequent loss of directional control, which resulted in a runway excursion.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC20CA006 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