Piper PA-18-150
N82172 is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Wadekamper Leo V, a partnership in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 27, 2006 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 26, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-7909064
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AB37FA (octal 52633772)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 27, 2006
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 26, 1979
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00453751
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wadekamper Leo V
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 100 Alfalfa Road
Helena, MT 59602 - Co-owners
- Wadekamper Mary S
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.
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The public federal record on N82172, 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 Wadekamper Leo V, a partnership, certificate issued June 27, 2006, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 26, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-7909064 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N82172 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 N82172: Accident on June 5, 2004 at Columbus, MT: minor 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 PA-18-150 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the aircraft during the landing and subsequent go-around. Inadequate compensation for the gusting winds and an airport hangar were factors.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA04LA098 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