Piper PA-18
N7437 is a Piper PA-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1957. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Soldotna, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 2, 2009 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 8, 1966. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18 · all PA-18s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-5455
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1957
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AA00FC (octal 52400374)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 2, 2009
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 8, 1966
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00752497
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fedorka Paul R Trustee
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 1749
Soldotna, AK 99669-1749 - Co-owners
- Klebba Genevieve A Trustee
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N7437, 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 Fedorka Paul R Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued September 2, 2009, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 8, 1966, 9 years after the 1957 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 18-5455 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7437 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Vickers VISCOUNT 745-D (serial 135, cancelled May 1, 1958). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 1, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N7437: Accident on June 26, 2000 at Nikiski, AK: 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
A bear running onto the landing area during the landing flare. A factor associated with the accident was the high vegetation on the edge of the airstrip.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC00LA080 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
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