Piper PA-28-161
N2572U is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Shavertown, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 16, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8016038
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A27430 (octal 50472060)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 28, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 16, 1979
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00733092
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Scoy Bridget Anne
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1000 Fairfield Rd
Shavertown, PA 18708-9538 - Co-owners
- Van Scoy John
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N2572U, 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 Van Scoy Bridget Anne, a co-owned, certificate issued February 28, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8016038 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2572U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172D (serial 17250172, cancelled date not given). 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 N2572U: Accident on August 29, 1993 at West Mifflin, PA: 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 PA-28-161 · operated under 091
The pilot's misjudgement of speed and distance, which resulted in a landing overrun of the runway. Factors were an embankment and the pilot not being able to abort the landing.
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 September 30, 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