Piper PA-18
N7168K is a Piper PA-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1950. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Watertown, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 1998 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated May 9, 1960.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18 · all PA-18s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-388
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1950
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A995D1 (octal 52312721)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 1998
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · May 9, 1960
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00041227
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dotzenroth David A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10075 County Road 24
Watertown, MN 55388-9326
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 N7168K, 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 Dotzenroth David A, an individual, certificate issued March 28, 1998, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 9, 1960, 10 years after the 1950 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 18-388 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7168K 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 N7168K: Accident on July 17, 1996 at Gatesville, NC: 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 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate preflight inspection which resulted in engine stoppage due to water contamination in the fuel system. A factor was the lack of suitable terrain for a forced 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