Piper PA-18-150
N8415Y is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Forsyth, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 2002 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 18, 1970.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-8859
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AB86AE (octal 52703256)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 18, 2002
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 18, 1970
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00663081
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schwend Brian
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 45
Forsyth, MT 59327-0045
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 N8415Y, 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 Schwend Brian, an individual, certificate issued March 18, 2002, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 18, 1970, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-8859 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8415Y 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 N8415Y: Accident on November 14, 2000 at Broadus, MT: serious 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 maintain aircraft control during the takeoff phase of the flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA01LA019 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