Piper PA-28-161
N2116J 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 co-owned owners in Novato, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 12, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 2, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7916197
- 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
- A1C06C (octal 50340154)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 12, 2019
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 2, 1978
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00951362
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ward John C
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 451 Airport Rd
Novato, CA 94945-1419 - Co-owners
- Lingo Clayton H
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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 N2116J, 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 Ward John C, a co-owned, certificate issued July 12, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 2, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7916197 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2116J 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]
1 NTSB record under N2116J: Accident on September 17, 1986 at Monterey, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Piper PA-28-161 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data