Piper PA-18-150
N8240P is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1963. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 27, 1982 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated February 20, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-8045
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AB421D (octal 52641035)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 27, 1982
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Other · February 20, 2003
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00393711
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Forsgren Keith
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 870529
Wasilla, AK 99687-0529
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 N8240P, 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 Forsgren Keith, an individual, certificate issued July 27, 1982, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 20, 2003, 40 years after the 1963 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 18-8045 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8240P 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 N8240P: Accident on May 3, 2003 at Skwentna, AK: no 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-18-160 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to use carburetor heat, which resulted in the accumulation of carburetor ice, a partial loss of engine power, and a subsequent forced landing. Factors contributing to the accident are a downdraft, the pilot operating the airplane at a low altitude, the presence of carburetor icing conditions, and the lack of suitable terrain for a forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC03LA048 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