Piper PA-18
N8578D is a Piper PA-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Nenana, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 11, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 26, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18 · all PA-18s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-6236
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- ABC4CD (octal 52742315)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 11, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 27, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 26, 1997
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00832621
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Coy Shane A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 247
Nenana, AK 99760-0247
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 N8578D, 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 Coy Shane A, an individual, certificate issued November 11, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 26, 1997, 39 years after the 1958 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 18-6236 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8578D 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 N8578D: Accident on May 23, 1998 at Glennallen, AK: minor 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 135
The pilot's inadequate preflight of the airplane's fuel system, and presence of water in the fuel system.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC98LA054 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