{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1998-09-25","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1997-01-23","city":"CEDAR CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"021","cruise_speed_mph":97,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41508","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-07-28","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7101828","mode_s_code":"52354746","mode_s_hex":"A9D9E6","model":"PA-18-150","n_number":"N734","name":"UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Jal","damage":"SUBS","date":"2004-12-01","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"DEN05TA033","probable_cause":"the pilot's failure to maintain clearance from the power lines. Contributing factors include the power lines, the sun glare, the pilot's reduced visual lookout, the pilot\u2019s improper in-flight planning and decision making and the pilot's failure to perform a go-around procedure after losing sight of the power lines.","registration":"N734","state":"NM","summary":"Accident on December 1, 2004 at Jal, NM: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"APHIS - WILDLIFE SERVICES","plain_english":"N734 is a Piper PA-18-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 2 seats. It is registered to United States Department Of Agriculture, a government body in Cedar City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 23, 1997 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated September 25, 1998.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to United States Department Of Agriculture, a government body, certificate issued January 23, 1997, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 25, 1998, 42 years after the 1956 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-5258 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N734 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-1558, cancelled February 8, 1971); Noorduyn UC-64A (serial 668, cancelled April 5, 1948); Standard J-1 (serial 1776, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N734: Accident on December 1, 2004 at Jal, NM: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":2,"serial_number":"18-5258","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"UT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"APHIS/AVN TRAINING & OPS CENTER","street2":"1223 N AIRPORT RD","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00556241","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N734","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1956,"zip":"847218412"}