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N696SM

Piper PA-18

Valid Alaska

N696SM is a Piper PA-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Sk Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 28, 2017 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 4, 1955.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-18 · all PA-18s and related versions
Serial number
18-3309
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1954
Cruising speed
97 mph
Transponder code
A9429C (octal 52241234)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 28, 2017
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · October 4, 1955
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00022273

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sk Aircraft LLC
Type
LLC
Address
8225 Hartzell Rd
Anchorage, AK 99507-3109

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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 N696SM, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Sk Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 28, 2017, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated October 4, 1955, consistent with the 1954 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-3309 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N696SM according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N696SM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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