Piper PA-18-150
N7343L is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Air Dakota Flite INC, a corporation in Hettinger, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 1995 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; forest, dated April 26, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-7509049
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-A2B · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A9DCB3 (octal 52356263)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 16, 1995
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Forest · April 26, 2006
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00711937
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Dakota Flite INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 429
Hettinger, ND 58639
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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 N7343L, 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 Air Dakota Flite INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 16, 1995, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 26, 2006, 31 years after the 1975 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 18-7509049 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7343L 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 N7343L: Accident on May 30, 2023 at St. Anthony, ND: 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-18-150 · operated under PUBU
The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from terrain while maneuvering at low attitude.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23LA210 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
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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