Piper PA-22-160
N3551Z is a Piper PA-22-160, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Alpine Cable & Construction INC, a corporation in Grand Junction, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 27, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated February 26, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-22-160 · all PA-22-160s and related versions
- Serial number
- 22-7462
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- A3F9F3 (octal 50774763)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 27, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 27, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · February 26, 2023
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00032893
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alpine Cable & Construction INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 4495
Grand Junction, CO 81502-4495
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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 N3551Z, 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 Alpine Cable & Construction INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 27, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 26, 2023, 63 years after the 1960 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 22-7462 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3551Z 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 N3551Z: Accident on April 15, 2021 at Cottonwood, AZ: 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-22-160 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing, which resulted in a ground loop.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR21LA160 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