Piper PA-18A 150
N9071D 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 an individual in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 17, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 17, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18A 150 · all PA-18A 150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-6437
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AC8BAC (octal 53105654)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 17, 2025
- Expires
- January 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- January 17, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 17, 1958
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00811211
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sturgis Richard G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6058 E Hart Lake Loop
Wasilla, AK 99654-9361
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9071D, 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 Sturgis Richard G, an individual, certificate issued January 17, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-6437 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9071D 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]
2 NTSB records under N9071D: Accident on February 16, 2005 at Talkeetna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 20, 1990 at Creve Coeur, MO: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18 · operated under 091
The pilot's selection of unsuitable terrain for takeoff, which resulted in ski assembly damage during the takeoff run from a frozen, snow-covered lake, and subsequent nose over during an emergency landing. Factors contributing to the accident were an overload failure of the ski tip retaining assembly, and a hidden obstruction on the surface of the lake.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18A · operated under 091
FUEL CONTAMINATION AND INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT.
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