Piper PA-32-260
N26DC is a Piper PA-32-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Ace Aviation LLC, an LLC in Reading, Vermont. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 3, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 30, 1965.
Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 7:05 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32-260 · all PA-32-260s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six, Lance and Saratoga family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 32-64
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A27CF2 (octal 50476362)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 3, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 30, 1965
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00941923
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ace Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 515 Shattuck Hill Rd
Reading, VT 05062-9755
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
Connections how N26DC links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six, Lance and Saratoga 3,917 registered
- Piper 44,847 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-540 series 5,245 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Ace Aviation LLC 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Reading, VT 1 aircraft registered in this town
- Vermont 675 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six, Lance and Saratoga 69 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six, Lance and Saratoga 934 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six, Lance and Saratoga 488 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-540 series 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540 series 304 reports since 1995
- Where N26DC is now · Last seen October 15 at 7:05 pm.
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The public federal record on N26DC, 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 Ace Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 3, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 30, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32-64 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N26DC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Carter GREAT LAKES 2T-1A (serial 7025-H-450, cancelled September 25, 2014). 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 N26DC: Accident on March 24, 2021 at Burlington, VT: 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-32-260 · operated under 091
A fire that originated in the right main landing gear brake assembly for reasons that could not be determined based on the available information.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data