Piper PA-22-150
N3609Z is a Piper PA-22-150, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sterling, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 18, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 17, 1960.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-22-150 · all PA-22-150s and related versions
- Serial number
- 22-7497
- 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
- A40FF7 (octal 51007767)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 18, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 18, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 17, 1960
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00433073
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Veal Petra L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 407
Sterling, AK 99672-0407
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N3609Z, 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 Veal Petra L, an individual, certificate issued November 18, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 17, 1960, consistent with the 1960 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 22-7497 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3609Z 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 N3609Z: Accident on July 1, 2025 at Chinitna Bay, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-22-150 · operated under 091
On June 30, 2025, about 1630 Alaska daylight time, a Piper PA 22-150 airplane, N3609Z, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Chinitna Bay, Alaska. The pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot reported that, while en route he heard two or three loud “thuds” followed by reduced rudder control. He said that the airplane began to yaw back and forth and increased when he added engine power. The pilot made the decision to perform a precautionary landing on a remote beach. During the land…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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