Piper PA-25-260
N169AB is a Piper PA-25-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Southern Cub and Aircraft Restoration LLC, an LLC in Pensacola, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 13, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 18, 2008.
Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 4:57 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-25-260 · all PA-25-260s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. A crop sprayer; the fabric covering is easy to repair in the field. This is how the Piper PA-25 Pawnee 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
- 25-4517
- 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
- 1
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- A1131F (octal 50211437)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 13, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 13, 2025
- 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 · November 18, 2008
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00110005
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southern Cub and Aircraft Restoration LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5612 Lobelia Ln
Pensacola, FL 32526-3265
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.
Connections how N169AB links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-25 Pawnee 455 registered
- Piper 44,838 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · 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
- Southern Cub and Aircraft Restoration LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Pensacola, FL 507 aircraft registered in this town
- Pensacola International · PNS
- Roscoe Field · 82J
- Florida 21,696 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-25 Pawnee 24 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-25 Pawnee 67 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-25 Pawnee 188 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
- Where N169AB is now · Last seen October 17 at 4:57 pm.
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The public federal record on N169AB, 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 Southern Cub and Aircraft Restoration LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 13, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 18, 2008, 40 years after the 1968 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 25-4517 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N169AB 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]
2 NTSB records under N169AB: Accident on May 31, 2013 at Hollywood, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on March 17, 2008 at Opa Locka, FL: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-25-260 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-25-260 · operated under 091
The entanglement of the hook rope with the rudder horn during banner pickup.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data