Piper PA-32-260
N173SN is a Piper PA-32-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Downers Grove, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 5, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 16, 1967.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32-260 · all PA-32-260s and related versions
- Serial number
- 32-912
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A125EF (octal 50222757)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 5, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 5, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 16, 1967
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00691253
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Williams Hoffman Alexander M
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 930 86Th St
Downers Grove, IL 60516-4840 - Co-owners
- Hoffman Joseph M
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.
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The public federal record on N173SN, 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 Williams Hoffman Alexander M, a co-owned, certificate issued June 5, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 16, 1967, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32-912 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N173SN 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N173SN. 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 August 27, 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