Piper PA-18-150
N9720P is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Talon Air Service INC, a corporation in Soldotna, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 5, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 22, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-7509137
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- AD8D79 (octal 53306571)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 5, 2021
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 22, 1975
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00574030
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Talon Air Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 1109
Soldotna, AK 99669-1109
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N9720P, 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 Talon Air Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 5, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 22, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-7509137 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9720P 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]
1 NTSB record under N9720P: Accident on November 27, 2014 at Nikiski, AK: serious 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 18-150 · operated under 135
The total loss of engine power due to carburetor icing, which resulted from the pilot’s failure to use carburetor heat while operating at low-power settings in an area conducive to carburetor icing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC15LA005 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data