Piper PA-18A 150
N7669D 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 an individual in Chugiak, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 8, 2018 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 25, 1967.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18A 150 · all PA-18A 150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-5939
- 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
- AA5B69 (octal 52455551)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 8, 2018
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 25, 1967
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00523367
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sims Charles A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 22541 Ursa Major Cir
Chugiak, AK 99567-5337
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.
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The public federal record on N7669D, 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 Sims Charles A, an individual, certificate issued February 8, 2018, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 25, 1967, 10 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 18-5939 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7669D 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 N7669D: Accident on September 2, 1996 at Gakona, 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
the pilot's inadequate compensation for gusty crosswind conditions, which resulted in a loss of directional control and subsequent collision with trees/brush. Factors relating to the accident were: the crosswind and wind gusts.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC96LA143 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