Piper PA-28-161
N3521M is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Decatur, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 29, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 11, 1978. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7816350
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A3EEC2 (octal 50767302)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 29, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 11, 1978
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00582763
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mckee David E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 514 County Road 4387
Decatur, TX 76234-8756
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N3521M, 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 Mckee David E, an individual, certificate issued April 29, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 11, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7816350 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3521M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-12 (serial 12-2368, cancelled March 22, 1956). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 1, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3521M. 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 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