Piper PA-30
N26BW is a Piper PA-30, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lester Prairie, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 30, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 1, 1967.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-30 · all PA-30s and related versions
- Serial number
- 30-1559
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 139 mph
- Transponder code
- A27CD2 (octal 50476322)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 30, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 30, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 1, 1967
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00371156
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bestul Greg
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3899 190Th St
Lester Prairie, MN 55354-6331
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 N26BW, 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 Bestul Greg, an individual, certificate issued August 30, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 1, 1967, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30-1559 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N26BW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ward Robert C WAG-A-BOND (serial 222, cancelled March 27, 1989). 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 N26BW: Accident on November 2, 1985 at Elbert, CO: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Beech 58 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN86FTE02 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