Piper PA-18-150
N744 is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 2 seats. It is registered to United States Dept Of Agriculture Aviation, a government body in Cedar City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 11, 2016 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 25, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-8309009
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AA0165 (octal 52400545)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 11, 2016
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 25, 1998
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00000122
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United States Dept Of Agriculture Aviation
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 1223 N Airport Rd
Cedar City, UT 84721-8412 - Co-owners
- Training & Operations Ctr
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N744, 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 Dept Of Agriculture Aviation, a government body, certificate issued April 11, 2016, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 25, 1998, 16 years after the 1982 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 18-8309009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N744 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 180A (serial 50331, cancelled October 2, 1959); Epps Flying Inc EPPS M-1 (serial 75, cancelled March 28, 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]
2 NTSB records under N744: Accident on March 29, 2007 at Sweetwater, TX: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 30, 2006 at Gail, TX: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18 · operated under 091
The loss of engine power due to the failure of the throttle lever/linkage. A contributing factor was the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW07TA089 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-150 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed resulting in an inadvertent stall/mush.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW06CA063 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