Piper PA-18-150
N796AB is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1955. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Drake Aerial Enterprises LLC DBA, an LLC in Genoa, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 22, 2011 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated March 26, 1962.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-4529
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1955
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AACE51 (octal 52547121)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 22, 2011
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · March 26, 1962
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00412953
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Drake Aerial Enterprises LLC DBA
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 25228 Bradner Rd
Genoa, OH 43430-9521 - Co-owners
- Air America Aerial Ads
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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 N796AB, 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 Drake Aerial Enterprises LLC DBA, an LLC, certificate issued November 22, 2011, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 26, 1962, 7 years after the 1955 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 18-4529 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N796AB 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 N796AB: Accident on July 6, 2019 at Bay City, MI: serious 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 PA18 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed and his exceedance of the airplane's critical angle of attack during a banner drop and pickup, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and a subsequent loss of control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN19LA214 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