Piper PA-18-150
N78AJ is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in North Pole, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 3, 1991 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated December 5, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-7809111
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AA8E36 (octal 52507066)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 3, 1991
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Other · December 5, 1979
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00904810
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hamlin Curits
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 56446
North Pole, AK 99705-1446 - Co-owners
- Hamlin Juanita
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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 N78AJ, 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 Hamlin Curits, a co-owned, certificate issued January 3, 1991, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated December 5, 1979, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-7809111 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78AJ 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 N78AJ: Accident on March 10, 1988 at Mcgrath, 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 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC88LA038 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