{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1982-08-11","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-11-06","city":"EAGLE RIVER","country_code":"US","county_code":"020","cruise_speed_mph":97,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"","engine_horsepower":null,"engine_maker":"","engine_model":"","engine_thrust_lb":null,"expiration_date":"2032-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-11-06","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7101802","mode_s_code":"52507551","mode_s_hex":"AA8F69","model":"PA-18","n_number":"N78NR","name":"KOZAK DANIEL PATRICK","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Wasilla","damage":"SUBS","date":"2015-01-31","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"ANC15FA009","probable_cause":"Both pilots\u2019 inadequate visual lookout and failure to see and avoid each other while in level cruise flight, which resulted in a midair collision. Contributing to the accident was the obscuration of the other pilot\u2019s visibility due to sun glare.","registration":"N78NR","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on January 31, 2015 at Wasilla, AK: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"SKWENTNA","damage":"SUBS","date":"2000-06-24","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ANC00LA079","probable_cause":"The pilot's inadequate compensation for wind conditions.  Factors in the accident were the presence of a tailwind, the pilot's inadvertent touchdown, and a short landing area bordered by high vegetation.","registration":"N78NR","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on June 24, 2000 at Skwentna, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N78NR is a Piper PA-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Eagle River, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 6, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 11, 1982.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Kozak Daniel Patrick, an individual, certificate issued November 6, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-3513 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N78NR according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"2 NTSB records under N78NR: Accident on January 31, 2015 at Wasilla, AK: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 24, 2000 at Skwentna, AK: 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":"Alaskan","region_code":"5","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"18-3513","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4432 BIRDSONG DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00084800","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N78NR","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"995779442"}