Piper PA-18-150
N985W is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Bethel, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 21, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 27, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-150 · all PA-18-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-7609
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- ADBFAB (octal 53337653)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 21, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 27, 1993
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00914482
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wuya Charlene F
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 2928
Bethel, AK 99559-2928 - Co-owners
- Wuya John W
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.
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The public federal record on N985W, 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 Wuya Charlene F, a co-owned, certificate issued January 21, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 27, 1993, 32 years after the 1961 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 18-7609 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N985W 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 N985W: Accident on June 4, 2015 at Mccarthy, AK: fatal, minor damage (1 fatal). Accident on March 4, 2008 at Nikolai, 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA 18-150 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to ensure adequate clearance from the spinning propeller while traversing the area between the leading edge of the wing and the nose of the airplane. Contributing to the accident was the decision to leave the cockpits of the airplanes unattended while the engines were idling and gear was being loaded on board.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-150 · operated under 091
The flight instructor's inadequate evaluation of the weather conditions. Contributing to the accident was an inadvertent stall/mush.
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
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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