Piper PA-18A
N8281C is a Piper PA-18A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 13, 1989 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated September 11, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18A · all PA-18As and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-3689
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1954
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AB5111 (octal 52650421)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 13, 1989
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Other · September 11, 2009
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00813541
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thomas Ken C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1935 Swallow Dr
Fairbanks, AK 99709-6647
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 N8281C, 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 Thomas Ken C, an individual, certificate issued December 13, 1989, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 11, 2009, 55 years after the 1954 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 18-3689 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8281C 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 N8281C: Accident on March 8, 2014 at Tanana, 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 passenger inadvertently interfered with the rudder control pedal, which resulted in a loss of directional control during takeoff.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC14CA018 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
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