Piper PA-18-135
N9965Q 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 Dms Leasing CO LLC, an LLC in Las Vegas, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2018 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 4, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-135 · all PA-18-135s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-3957
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1955
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- ADEC03 (octal 53366003)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 3, 2018
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- March 14, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 4, 1978
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00423330
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dms Leasing CO LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2375 E Tropicana Ste 8-193
Las Vegas, NV 89119
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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 N9965Q, 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 Dms Leasing CO LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 3, 2018, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 4, 1978, 23 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 18-3957 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9965Q 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 N9965Q: Accident on August 14, 1988 at Parker, AZ: minor 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX88LA286 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