Piper PA-18A 150
N6985D is a Piper PA-18A 150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1957. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in East Gull Lake, Minnesota. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated May 3, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18A 150 · all PA-18A 150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-5514
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1957
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A94B79 (octal 52245571)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- September 23, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · May 3, 1957
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00770477
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 953 Green Gables Rd
East Gull Lake, MN 56401-3169
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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 N6985D, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated May 3, 1957, consistent with the 1957 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-5514 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6985D 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 N6985D: Accident on August 20, 2000 at North Plains, OR: minor 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-18A-150 · operated under 091
The pilot's excessive use of brakes. Contributing factors were the pilot's misjudgment of distance/speed (landing long and fast) and lack of experience in the make/model of aircraft.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA00LA167 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