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N289HG

Piper PA-28-161

Valid Georgia

N289HG is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Georgia Aviation Authority, a government body in Eastman, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 3, 2009 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 9, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
Serial number
2842146
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-D3G · 160 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2002
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
A2F020 (octal 50570040)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 3, 2009
Expires
April 30, 2029
Last FAA action
July 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · February 9, 2002
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00754027

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Georgia Aviation Authority
Type
Government
Address
71 Airport Rd
Eastman, GA 31023-3900

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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 N289HG, 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 Georgia Aviation Authority, a government body, certificate issued December 3, 2009, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 9, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2842146 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N289HG 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 N289HG: Accident on December 3, 2002 at Eastman, GA: 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

ATL03LA022Accident on December 3, 2002 at Eastman, GA: no injuries, substantial damage.

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

The pilots failure to maintain a visual lookout resulting in the subsequent on ground collision with a hangar.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL03LA022 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