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A Piper PA-18 Super Cub, the same model family as N90947
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N90947

Piper PA-18-150

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlaska

N90947 is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated May 5, 1994.

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
Built of
steel tube and fabric
The fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Piper PA-18 Super Cub family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
18-8109052
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
2
Year built
1981
Cruising speed
97 mph
Transponder code
AC939F (octal 53111637)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
July 29, 2026
Expires
July 31, 2033
Last FAA action
July 29, 2026
Airworthiness
MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; OtherFAA certificate purpose code 130 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 5, 1994
FAA region
AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00561151

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Macleod Andrew S Trustee
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
PO Box 92224
Anchorage, AK 99509-2224
Co-owners
Alao-Macleod Vanessa Victoria Trustee

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

1962-02-14Boeing 377 · exported to Israel · Valid registration

Connections how N90947 links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N90947.json.

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N90947, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Macleod Andrew S Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued July 29, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 5, 1994, 13 years after the 1981 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-8109052 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N90947 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 377 (serial 15963, cancelled February 14, 1962). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N90947: Accident on September 22, 1987 at Talkeetna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ANC87LA163Accident on September 22, 1987 at Talkeetna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 188109050

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-150 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data