Piper PA-28-235
N16518 is a Piper PA-28-235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Big Bear Lake, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 30, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 13, 1973.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-235 · all PA-28-235s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 28-7310102
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 107 mph
- Transponder code
- A106DD (octal 50203335)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 30, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 13, 1973
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00802150
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dokter Garret H JR Trustee
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 4349
Big Bear Lake, CA 92315-4349
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
Connections how N16518 links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 18,620 registered
- Piper 44,838 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-540 series 5,245 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Big Bear Lake, CA 25 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,761 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 90 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 3,269 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 697 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-540 series 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540 series 304 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N16518, 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 Dokter Garret H JR Trustee, an individual, certificate issued December 30, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. 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 28-7310102 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N16518 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Waco ZQC-6 (serial 4482, cancelled October 12, 1943). 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]
1 NTSB record under N16518: Accident on June 19, 1996 at Bethalto, IL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mcdonnell Douglas F/A-18C · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to follow the preflight crew briefing and attain a proper altitude during an aerobatic maneuver. Factors in the accident were: the pilot's previous experience of flying similar airshow routines in a different airplane with substantially different performance characteristics, and the company's failure to have a formal training plan for pilots performing airshow demonstration flights.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data