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N927JS

Piper PA-18-150

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesWyoming

N927JS is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Southern Aircraft Consultancy INC Trustee, a corporation in Casper, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 20, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 6, 2001.

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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
18-7609143
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
1976
Cruising speed
97 mph
Transponder code
ACD904 (octal 53154404)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
February 20, 2026
Expires
February 28, 2033
Last FAA action
February 20, 2026
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 6, 2001
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00393311

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Southern Aircraft Consultancy INC Trustee
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
330 S Center St Ste 300
Casper, WY 82601-2873

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N927JS links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N927JS, 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 Southern Aircraft Consultancy INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued February 20, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 6, 2001, 25 years after the 1976 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 18-7609143 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N927JS according to the deregistered file. [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 N927JS: Accident on October 11, 2026 at Wauconda, WA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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

WPR27FA014Accident on October 11, 2026 at Wauconda, WA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).

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

On October 10, 2026, about 2014 Pacific daylight time, a Piper PA-18-150, N927JS, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Wauconda, Washington. The flight instructor and student pilot were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to the pilots’ family members, the student pilot had recently purchased the airplane, and had planned to fly the airplane from Willow Airport (PAUO) Willow, Alaska, to Kamiah Municipal Airport (S73), Kamiah, Idaho. According to an itinerary the student pilot had s…

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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

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data