Piper PA-28RT-201
N279SR is a Piper PA-28RT-201, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Metro Aircraft CO, a corporation in Bloomington, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 7, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 11, 1979. 1 document is on file: loan release.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28RT-201 · all PA-28RT-201s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28R-7918130
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A2C98B (octal 50544613)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 7, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 11, 1979
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00900433
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Metro Aircraft CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1600 W 82Nd St Ste 100
Bloomington, MN 55431-1411
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Documents on file 1
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The public federal record on N279SR, 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 Metro Aircraft CO, a corporation, certificate issued October 7, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 11, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28R-7918130 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N279SR according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Loan release (September 15, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N279SR: Accident on February 23, 2026 at Glencoe, MN: 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-28RT-201 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to extend the landing gear before landing and the flight instructor’s inadequate supervision of the flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN26LA124 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
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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