Piper PA-32-300
N2957N is a Piper PA-32-300, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lake Forest, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 23, 2018 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 24, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32-300 · all PA-32-300s and related versions
- Serial number
- 32-7940228
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A30B67 (octal 50605547)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 23, 2018
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 24, 1979
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00880813
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bak John A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 22136 Elsberry Way
Lake Forest, CA 92630-7307
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 N2957N, 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 Bak John A, an individual, certificate issued August 23, 2018, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 24, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32-7940228 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2957N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 120 (serial 13215, cancelled July 27, 1951). 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 N2957N: Accident on August 13, 2023 at Needles, CA: 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-32-300 · operated under 091
An encounter with windshear during the initial climb after takeoff, resulting in a loss of control and a subsequent hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR23LA363 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