Piper PA-22-160
N8718D is a Piper PA-22-160, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 14, 2016 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 17, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-22-160 · all PA-22-160s and related versions
- Serial number
- 22-5899
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- ABFD81 (octal 52776601)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 14, 2016
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 17, 1958
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00292241
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Slaughter James M JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4181 Pine Crest Trl
Houston, TX 77059-3220
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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 N8718D, 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 Slaughter James M JR, an individual, certificate issued April 14, 2016, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 17, 1958, consistent with the 1958 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 22-5899 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8718D 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 N8718D: Accident on January 17, 2004 at Carefree, AZ: 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 22-160 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate fuel management by his failure to switch the fuel tank selector position, which resulted in fuel starvation, a loss of engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX04LA109 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