Piper PA-18A 150
N9496D is a Piper PA-18A 150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Cavu Clearing LLC, an LLC in Center Harbor, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 10, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 8, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18A 150 · all PA-18A 150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-6748
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AD31C5 (octal 53230705)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 10, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 2, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 8, 1958
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00141095
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cavu Clearing LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- C/O Keith Fitzgerald
120 Follett Rd
Center Harbor, NH 03226-3332
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N9496D, 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 Cavu Clearing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 10, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 8, 1958, consistent with the 1958 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-6748 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9496D 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 N9496D: Accident on June 21, 2018 at Llano, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 12, 1989 at Winston, NM: serious injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA18 · operated under 091
The pilot's receiving instruction’s improper landing flare and his failure to maintain adequate airspeed and his exceedance of the airplane's critical angle of attack during landing, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18A-150 · operated under 091
DETERIORATED CARBURETOR FLOAT. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE AND THE TERRAIN CONDITIONS IN THE EMERGENCY LANDING AREA.
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 August 27, 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