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N7487D

Piper PA-18A 150

Valid Delaware

N7487D is a Piper PA-18A 150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1957. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Southern Cross Aviation INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 21, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated December 3, 1957.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-18A 150 · all PA-18A 150s and related versions
Serial number
18-5826
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1957
Cruising speed
97 mph
Transponder code
AA1393 (octal 52411623)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 21, 2021
Expires
September 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · December 3, 1957
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00632627

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Southern Cross Aviation INC
Type
Corporation
Address
3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N7487D, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Southern Cross Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 21, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated December 3, 1957, consistent with the 1957 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-5826 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7487D according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N7487D. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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