Piper PA-18-135
N959E is a Piper PA-18-135, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1955. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Rs Specialties LLC, an LLC in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 30, 2018 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated September 10, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-135 · all PA-18-135s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-4021
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1955
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AD567A (octal 53253172)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 30, 2018
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Other · September 10, 2009
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00283350
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rs Specialties LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 10000 Cobra St
Anchorage, AK 99507-6435
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N959E, 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 Rs Specialties LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 30, 2018, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 10, 2009, 54 years after the 1955 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-4021 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N959E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Command-Aire 5C3 (serial W-105, cancelled January 27, 1932). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N959E: Accident on September 13, 2014 at Susitna, AK: 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 18-135 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate compensation for gusting, variable wind conditions during initial climb after takeoff.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC14CA079 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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