{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1993-04-27","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-01-21","city":"BETHEL","country_code":"US","county_code":"050","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":"2028-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-14","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7101828","mode_s_code":"53337653","mode_s_hex":"ADBFAB","model":"PA-18-150","n_number":"N985W","name":"WUYA CHARLENE F","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"McCarthy","damage":"MINR","date":"2015-06-04","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"ANC15LA035","probable_cause":"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.","registration":"N985W","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on June 4, 2015 at Mccarthy, AK: fatal, minor damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Nikolai","damage":"SUBS","date":"2008-03-04","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ANC08LA039","probable_cause":"The flight instructor's inadequate evaluation of  the weather conditions. Contributing to the accident was an inadvertent stall/mush.","registration":"N985W","state":"AK","summary":"Accident on March 4, 2008 at Nikolai, AK: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"WUYA JOHN W","plain_english":"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.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Wuya Charlene F, a co-owned, certificate issued January 21, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18-7609 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N985W 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 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.","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":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":2,"serial_number":"18-7609","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AK","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 2928","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00914482","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N985W","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1961,"zip":"995592928"}