Piper PA-18-150
N7977V is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Climax, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 20, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 31, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-8209013
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AAD567 (octal 52552547)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 20, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 20, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 31, 1982
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00452841
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ranten Christopher D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 36959 State Highway 220 SW
Climax, MN 56523-9406
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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 N7977V, 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 Ranten Christopher D, an individual, certificate issued April 20, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 31, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-8209013 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7977V 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 N7977V. 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