Piper PA-28R-200
N3161T is a Piper PA-28R-200, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in San Jose, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 12, 2018 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 30, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28R-200 · all PA-28R-200s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28R-7235144
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 107 mph
- Transponder code
- A35FA8 (octal 50657650)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 12, 2018
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 30, 1991
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00763632
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Koester Carsten
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 25 S 3Rd St Unit 201
San Jose, CA 95113-2510
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3161T, 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 Koester Carsten, an individual, certificate issued October 12, 2018, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28R-7235144 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3161T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 177 (serial 17700461, cancelled date not given). 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 N3161T: Accident on July 1, 1984 at Lancaster, 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: Cessna 177 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX84LA377 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