Piper PA-18A
N8976D is a Piper PA-18A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Williams Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 14, 2016 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated August 21, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18A · all PA-18As and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-4887
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AC6283 (octal 53061203)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 14, 2016
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Other · August 21, 2024
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00462984
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Williams Aircraft LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 12500 Summer Dr
Anchorage, AK 99516-2666
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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 N8976D, 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 Williams Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 14, 2016, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 21, 2024, 68 years after the 1956 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 18-4887 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8976D 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 N8976D: Accident on April 30, 2012 at Palmer, 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-18-150 · operated under 091
The student pilot did not maintain sufficient airspeed during a steep turn after takeoff, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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