Piper PA-32-300
N20787 is a Piper PA-32-300, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Frisco, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 6, 2015 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 15, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32-300 · all PA-32-300s and related versions
- Serial number
- 32-7840181
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A1AF94 (octal 50327624)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 6, 2015
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 15, 1978
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00011232
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Crawford Donald Mark
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7685 Fossil Ridge Dr
Frisco, TX 75034-5468
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N20787, 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 Crawford Donald Mark, an individual, certificate issued July 6, 2015, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 15, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32-7840181 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N20787 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182P (serial 18261203, cancelled July 2, 1974). 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 N20787: Accident on August 16, 2002 at Chatham, MA: 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 PA32-300 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper in-flight decision to continue the landing after losing visual contact with the runway, which resulted in his failure to obtain the proper touchdown point, and the subsequent overrun. Factors in this accident were the clouds and low ceiling.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC02LA167 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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