Piper PA-28-140
N317LB is a Piper PA-28-140, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Trail Of 140 Tears LLC, an LLC in Bozeman, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 28, 2013 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 22, 1970.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-140 · all PA-28-140s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-26935
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 107 mph
- Transponder code
- A361CE (octal 50660716)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 28, 2013
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 22, 1970
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00042595
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Trail Of 140 Tears LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- C/O Larry Brown
50 Sundance Trl
Bozeman, MT 59718-6903
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.
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The public federal record on N317LB, 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 Trail Of 140 Tears LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 28, 2013, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 22, 1970, consistent with the 1970 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-26935 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N317LB according to the deregistered file. [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 N317LB: Accident on August 14, 2020 at Harlowton, MT: minor 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 PA28 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to follow the appropriate takeoff procedures, which resulted in a collision with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR20LA278 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