Piper PA-18-150
N96DC is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Vertical Horizon Aviation LLC, an LLC in Sandown, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 30, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 25, 1960.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-7284
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AD5A1B (octal 53255033)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 30, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 30, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 25, 1960
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00252383
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vertical Horizon Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 53 Royal Range Rd
Sandown, NH 03873-2130
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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N96DC, 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 Vertical Horizon Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 30, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 25, 1960, consistent with the 1960 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-7284 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N96DC 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N96DC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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