Piper Aircraft Corp PA-18-150
N8540S is a Piper Aircraft Corp PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Manalapan, New Jersey. The FAA lists the registration as "registration certificate deemed ineffective or invalid" (certificate issued June 26, 2025). No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper Aircraft Corp
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-8540
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ABB89D (octal 52734235)
Registration
- Status
- Registration certificate deemed ineffective or invalid
- Certificate issued
- June 26, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 13, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01510666
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chalmers Ashley
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 24 Hillside Rd
Manalapan, NJ 07726-4221
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.
Earlier use of this number 3
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8540S, 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.
Registration status is "Registration certificate deemed ineffective or invalid". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-8540 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8540S was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Advanced Aviation CARRERA (serial 0174, cancelled January 10, 2018); Air Tractor Inc AT-302 (serial 302-0139, cancelled July 30, 2002); Cessna 182H (serial 18256640, cancelled October 15, 1965). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8540S. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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