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N82022

Piper PA-18-150

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlaska

N82022 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 Hard Luck Aviation LLC, an LLC in Tok, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2014 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated May 23, 2019.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Tok Air Service LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
Built of
steel tube and fabric
The fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Piper PA-18 Super Cub family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
18-7809113
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
2
Year built
1978
Cruising speed
97 mph
Transponder code
AB3394 (octal 52631624)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
September 22, 2014
Expires
September 30, 2027
Last FAA action
March 17, 2023
Airworthiness
RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · OtherFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 23, 2019
FAA region
AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00813721

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hard Luck Aviation LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
PO Box 837
Tok, AK 99780-0837
Charter N82022 with Tok Air Service LLC:

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1950-01-30Aeronca 7AC · Valid registration

Connections how N82022 links to the rest of the register

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Place
Airworthiness

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N82022.json.

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The public federal record on N82022, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Hard Luck Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 22, 2014, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 23, 2019, 41 years after the 1978 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-7809113 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N82022 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 648, cancelled January 30, 1950). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

2 NTSB records under N82022: Accident on September 11, 2007 at Tok, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 22, 1995 at Fairbanks, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 2

ANC07LA099Accident on September 11, 2007 at Tok, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18 · operated under 091

The pilot's selection of an unsuitable takeoff area and failure to maintain clearance from trees during takeoff. Contributing to the accident were soft, muddy terrain conditions.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

ANC95LA079Accident on June 22, 1995 at Fairbanks, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 18-7909113

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-150 · operated under 091

THE PILOT'S INADVERTENT STALL OF THE AIRPLANE.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data