Piper PA-18-150
N8979D is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated August 24, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-7509053
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AC62EC (octal 53061354)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 23, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 23, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Other · August 24, 2012
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00682557
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Burnett Kris W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7838 Gate Creek Dr
Anchorage, AK 99502-4070
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8979D, 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 Burnett Kris W, an individual, certificate issued July 23, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 24, 2012, 37 years after the 1975 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 18-7509053 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8979D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-18-150 (serial 18-6421, cancelled April 7, 1961). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
2 NTSB records under N8979D: Accident on July 11, 2025 at Palmer, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 11, 2014 at Talkeetna, 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-150 · operated under 091
The pilot's excessive braking during the landing roll, resulting in a nose over.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA 18-150 · operated under 091
The pilots excessive use of the airplanes brakes during the landing roll, which resulted in a nose over. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor's inadequate supervision of the training flight.
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
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