Piper PA-18-135
N9967Q is a Piper PA-18-135, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Taildragon LLC, an LLC in Boise, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 7, 2000 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 8, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-18-135 · all PA-18-135s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18-4012
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1954
- Cruising speed
- 97 mph
- Transponder code
- ADEC49 (octal 53366111)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 7, 2000
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 8, 1985
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00273340
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Taildragon LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3440 N Plantation River Dr
Boise, ID 83703-3002
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 N9967Q, 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 Taildragon LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 7, 2000, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 8, 1985, 31 years after the 1954 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 18-4012 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9967Q 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]
3 NTSB records under N9967Q: Accident on June 2, 2002 at Payette, ID: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 12, 1996 at Boulder, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 25, 1989 at Boulder, CO: 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 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-135 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to adequately compensate for the wind conditions during landing resulting in a ground loop/swerve. Wind gusts were a contributing factor.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-135 · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain directional control and his improper use of rudder. A factor was the pilot's lack of total experience in the make and model of airplane.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18-135 · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL, WHICH RESULTED IN AN INADVERTENT GROUND SWERVE AND SUBSEQUENT DAMAGE TO THE WING.
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 September 30, 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