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N8659C

Piper PA-18A-135

Valid Kansas

N8659C is a Piper PA-18A-135, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Syracuse, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 30, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated July 26, 1996.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-18A-135 · all PA-18A-135s and related versions
Serial number
18-2791
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1953
Cruising speed
97 mph
Transponder code
ABE500 (octal 52762400)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 30, 2020
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Restricted · Other · July 26, 1996
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00582411

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Braddock Randall C
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 758
Syracuse, KS 67878-0758

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8659C, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Braddock Randall C, an individual, certificate issued April 30, 2020, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 26, 1996, 43 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-2791 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8659C according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8659C. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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