Piper PA-32-300
N16487 is a Piper PA-32-300, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Piper Cherokee LLC, an LLC in Seal Beach, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 3, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 13, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32-300 · all PA-32-300s and related versions
- Serial number
- 32-7340090
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A1041A (octal 50202032)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 3, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 1, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 13, 1973
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00052150
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Piper Cherokee LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4156 Ironwood Ave
Seal Beach, CA 90740-2856
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N16487, 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.
Valid registration to Piper Cherokee LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 3, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 13, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32-7340090 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N16487 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Porterfield CP-40 (serial 253, cancelled March 25, 1938). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N16487. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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