Piper PA-28-161
N21116 is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Prestige Worldwide Aviation LLC, an LLC in Downers Grove, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 17, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 16, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7916025
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A1BFD3 (octal 50337723)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 17, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 16, 1978
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00931372
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Prestige Worldwide Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 8428 Brookridge Rd
Downers Grove, IL 60516-4823
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 N21116, 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 Prestige Worldwide Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 17, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 16, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7916025 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N21116 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Convair 240 (serial 4, cancelled July 5, 1969). 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 N21116. 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