Piper PA-18-150
N83272 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 an individual in Willow, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 30, 2001 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated September 30, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-7609063
- 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
- AB6330 (octal 52661460)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 30, 2001
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Other · September 30, 2015
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00891602
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bowker James D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 650
Willow, AK 99688-0650
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 N83272, 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 Bowker James D, an individual, certificate issued April 30, 2001, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 30, 2015, 39 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 18-7609063 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N83272 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]
2 NTSB records under N83272: Accident on July 12, 2003 at Talkeetna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 11, 2002 at Copper Center, 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18 · operated under 091
The pilot's selection of an unsuitable landing area, which resulted in an on ground encounter with soft terrain and subsequent nose over of the airplane. A factor associated with the accident was soft terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC03CA077 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18 · operated under 091
The pilot's selection of unsuitable terrain for landing, resulting in a nose-over during the landing roll. A factor contributing to the accident was rough/uneven terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC02LA094 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