Piper PA-18-105 SPECIAL
N7117K is a Piper PA-18-105 SPECIAL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in King Salmon, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated August 15, 1960.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-105 SPECIAL · all PA-18-105 SPECIALs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-340
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A9831B (octal 52301433)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 6, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 6, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · August 15, 1960
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00381017
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Klutsch Joseph R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 222
King Salmon, AK 99613-0222
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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 N7117K, 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 Klutsch Joseph R, an individual, certificate issued September 6, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. 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 18-340 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7117K 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 N7117K: Accident on October 5, 2021 at Houston, TX: 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 PA-18-105 SPECIAL · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper application of brakes during landing.
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 September 30, 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