Piper PA-18-150
N9044D is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Arctic Backcountry Flying Service LLC, an LLC in Kotzebue, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 18, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated May 27, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-6788
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AC80F0 (octal 53100360)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 18, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · May 27, 1959
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00311291
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Arctic Backcountry Flying Service LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 672
Kotzebue, AK 99752-0672
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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 N9044D, 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 Arctic Backcountry Flying Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 18, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated May 27, 1959, consistent with the 1958 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-6788 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9044D 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 N9044D: Accident on August 9, 1998 at Lac Du Flambeau, WI: 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-18-150 · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed and the subsequent inadvertant 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