Piper PA-18-150
N742 is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 2 seats. It is registered to United States Department Of Agriculture, a government body in Cedar City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 1986 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 13, 1964.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-8146
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- A9F9F7 (octal 52374767)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 16, 1986
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 13, 1964
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00732487
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United States Department Of Agriculture
- Type
- Government
- Address
- Aphis/Aviation Train & Ops Center
1223 N Airport Rd
Cedar City, UT 84721-8412 - Co-owners
- Aphis - Wildlife Services
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N742, 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 United States Department Of Agriculture, a government body, certificate issued May 16, 1986, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 13, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-8146 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N742 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Cessna 180 (serial 32521, cancelled October 7, 1960); Grumman G-21A (serial B-22, cancelled September 28, 1954); Curtiss JN4D (serial M-2889, cancelled October 16, 1930). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N742: Accident on March 8, 2002 at Winnemucca, NV: 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-18-150 · operated under 137
The pilot's inadequate fuel consumption calculations that lead to fuel exhaustion.
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
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