Piper PA-18A 150
N6983B is a Piper PA-18A 150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Opelousas, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated September 20, 1967.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18A 150 · all PA-18A 150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-5105
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A94B31 (octal 52245461)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 15, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · September 20, 1967
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00880467
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wiltz Paul E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 388 Flossie Ln
Opelousas, LA 70570-8103
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N6983B, 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 Wiltz Paul E, an individual, certificate issued April 15, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-5105 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6983B 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 N6983B: Accident on July 14, 2019 at Osceola, WI: 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 failure of the right horizontal stabilizer during takeoff, resulting in a loss of control and forced landing. Contributing to the accident was the installation of an unapproved stabilizer frame and failure of maintenance personnel to identify deterioration of the stabilizer during routine maintenance.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN19LA224 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
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