Piper PA-18A 150
N8889D is a Piper PA-18A 150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Wateractive43 LLC, an LLC in Auburn, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 21, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18A 150 · all PA-18A 150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-6358
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AC3F24 (octal 53037444)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 21, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 21, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00245639
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wateractive43 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2400 Rickenbacker Way
Auburn, CA 95602-9537
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 N8889D, 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 Wateractive43 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 21, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [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 18-6358 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8889D 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 N8889D: Accident on July 3, 2012 at Illiamna, AK: 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-18A 150 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate recovery from a bounced landing, which resulted in a loss of control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC12CA062 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