Piper PA-18-135
N8553C is a Piper PA-18-135, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Next Flight Out LTD, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 27, 1997 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 10, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-135 · all PA-18-135s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-2699
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1953
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- ABBCAF (octal 52736257)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 27, 1997
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · April 10, 1956
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00352671
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Next Flight Out LTD
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105-F
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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 N8553C, 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 Next Flight Out LTD, a corporation, certificate issued October 27, 1997, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 10, 1956, 3 years after the 1953 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 18-2699 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8553C 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 N8553C: Accident on February 12, 2002 at Winter Haven, FL: 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 pilot's improper flare during an attempted landing on water. A factor was glassy water.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL02LA047 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