Piper PA-18-150
N78QP is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Seattle, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 30, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 17, 1966.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-8469
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AA8F99 (octal 52507631)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 30, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 17, 1966
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00622504
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hilyer Bruce W Trustee
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2021 1St Ave Apt A10
Seattle, WA 98121-2135
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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 N78QP, 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 Hilyer Bruce W Trustee, an individual, certificate issued March 30, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 17, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-8469 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78QP 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N78QP. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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