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N260ND

Piper PA-28-161

Valid Delaware

N260ND is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Plane Nonsense INC, a corporation in Middletown, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 18, 2005 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 17, 1999.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
Serial number
2842055
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1999
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
A2802D (octal 50500055)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 18, 2005
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · August 17, 1999
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00515842

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Plane Nonsense INC
Type
Corporation
Address
1232 Choptank Rd
Middletown, DE 19709

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N260ND, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Plane Nonsense INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 18, 2005, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 17, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2842055 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N260ND according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N260ND: Accident on September 22, 2010 at Marlboro, MA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ERA10CA496Accident on September 22, 2010 at Marlboro, MA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-161 · operated under 091

The pilot’s improper touchdown point and failure to perform a go-around in a timely manner, which resulted in a runway excursion.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA10CA496 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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