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N8780D

Piper PA-18

N8780D is a Piper PA-18, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to N8780D LLC, an LLC in Santa Cruz, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 23, 1958.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-18
Serial number
18-6308
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
97 mph
Transponder code
AC166A (octal 53013152)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 16, 2025
Expires
September 30, 2032
Last FAA action
June 24, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · January 23, 1958
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00742091

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
N8780D LLC
Type
LLC
Address
849 Almar Ave Ste C126
Santa Cruz, CA 95060-5875

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.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data