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Piper PA-18
N8461D is a Piper PA-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1957. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Silver Wings Flying Company LLC, an LLC in Olympia, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 23, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 28, 1957.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18 · all PA-18s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Piper PA-18 Super Cub family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 18-6160
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1957
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AB98A2 (octal 52714242)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 23, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 28, 1957
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00672941
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Silver Wings Flying Company LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 11902 Waddell Creek Rd SW
Olympia, WA 98512-8531
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.
Connections how N8461D links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-18 Super Cub 3,620 registered
- Piper 44,847 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental C90 series 2,149 aircraft with this engine series · 95 hp
- Silver Wings Flying Company LLC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Olympia, WA 242 aircraft registered in this town
- Olympia Regional · OLM
- Hoskins Field · 44T
- Washington 10,570 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-18 Super Cub 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-18 Super Cub 136 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-18 Super Cub 554 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental C90 series 6 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental C90 series 18 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N8461D, 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 Silver Wings Flying Company LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 23, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 28, 1957, consistent with the 1957 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-6160 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8461D 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 N8461D: Accident on July 31, 2014 at Traverse City, MI: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA 18 · operated under 091
The pilot's loss of directional control during landing, resulting in a runway excursion and the airplane nosing over.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data