Piper PA-18-150
N7174B is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 18, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated May 10, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-5205
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A998F4 (octal 52314364)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 18, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · May 10, 1957
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00801237
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mercil Richard
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 706 Belmont Rd
Grand Forks, ND 58201-4910
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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 N7174B, 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 Mercil Richard, an individual, certificate issued August 18, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated May 10, 1957, consistent with the 1956 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-5205 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7174B 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]
2 NTSB records under N7174B: Accident on June 25, 1998 at Fargo, ND: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 28, 1987 at Fargo, ND: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-150 · operated under 137
the pilot's failure to maintain clearance with the powerline during a swath run. A factor associated with the accident was the powerline.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-150 · operated under 137
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 August 27, 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