Piper PA-18-150
N74996 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 Seward Air Taxi LLC, an LLC in Seward, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 25, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated August 13, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-7509112
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AA17AB (octal 52413653)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 25, 2019
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · August 13, 1975
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00222647
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Seward Air Taxi LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 46
Seward, AK 99664-0046
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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 N74996, 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 Seward Air Taxi LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 25, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated August 13, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-7509112 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N74996 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 N74996: Accident on August 21, 1998 at Fairbanks, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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 PUBU
The pilot's inadequate preflight planning/preparation, and his delay in aborting the takeoff. Factors in the accident were a short runway area for takeoff, trees located at the end of the runway, and the pilot's excessive application of brakes.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC98TA128 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