Piper PA-18-150
N82491 is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Gakona, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 28, 2012 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 27, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-7809180
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AB4364 (octal 52641544)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 28, 2012
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · June 27, 1979
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00353621
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcmahan Bryan W
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 209
Gakona, AK 99586-0209 - Co-owners
- Mcmahan Jacquelyn Kr
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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 N82491, 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 Mcmahan Bryan W, a co-owned, certificate issued June 28, 2012, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 27, 1979, 3 years after the 1976 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 18-7809180 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N82491 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 N82491: Accident on September 17, 2004 at Slana, 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 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to compensate for wind conditions during landing, and his failure to maintain adequate airspeed, which resulted in a loss of control, and subsequent collision with trees during an uncontrolled descent. Factors contributing to the accident were gusty wind conditions and an inadvertent stall.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC04LA110 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