Piper PA-20
N1491A is a Piper PA-20, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1952. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lone Jack, Missouri. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 19, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-20 · all PA-20s and related versions
- Serial number
- 20-840
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1952
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- A0C69B (octal 50143233)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reported
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- July 23, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 19, 1956
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00410800
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12901 S Ragsdale Rd
Lone Jack, MO 64070-9527
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.
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N1491A, 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.
Registration status is "Sale reported". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 19, 1956, 4 years after the 1952 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 20-840 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1491A 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]
1 NTSB record under N1491A: Accident on February 13, 2026 at Three Forks, MT: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-20 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional during the landing roll with a variable wind.
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
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data