Piper PA-32-260
N32785 is a Piper PA-32-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kodiak, Alaska. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 22, 1975.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Redemption, Inc, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen October 20 at 4:12 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32-260 · all PA-32-260s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six, Lance and Saratoga family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 32-7500009
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A38BDF (octal 50705737)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pendingFAA registration status code R (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- November 6, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 22, 1975
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00832013
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1420 Airport Way
Kodiak, AK 99615-6821
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.
Connections how N32785 links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six, Lance and Saratoga 3,916 registered
- Piper 44,848 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Redemption, Inc · charter operator
- Lycoming O-540 series 5,245 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Kodiak, AK 102 aircraft registered in this town
- Kodiak Airport · ADQ
- Kodiak Municipal · KDK
- Kodiak/Lilly Lake Seaplane Base · 9Z3
- Trident Basin Seaplane Base · T44
- Alaska 9,146 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six, Lance and Saratoga 69 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six, Lance and Saratoga 934 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-32 Cherokee Six, Lance and Saratoga 488 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-540 series 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540 series 304 reports since 1995
- Where N32785 is now · Last seen October 20 at 4:12 pm.
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The public federal record on N32785, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 22, 1975, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32-7500009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N32785 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N32785. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data