Piper PA-18AS-125
N655HE is a Piper PA-18AS-125, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1952. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 24, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated July 9, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18AS-125 · all PA-18AS-125s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-1740
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1952
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A8A001 (octal 52120001)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 24, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · July 9, 1965
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00764590
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Styers Bret A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 870885
Wasilla, AK 99687-0885 - Co-owners
- Styers Britta S / Styers Michael A
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 N655HE, 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 Styers Bret A, a co-owned, certificate issued January 24, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 9, 1965, 13 years after the 1952 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-1740 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N655HE 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 N655HE: Accident on September 2, 2019 at Beluga, 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 PA18 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain an adequate climb rate during takeoff in gusting wind conditions, which resulted in an uncontrolled descent.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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