Piper PA-25-235
N386AB is a Piper PA-25-235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Plane And Simple Leasing LLC, an LLC in Delano, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 24, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 31, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-25-235 · all PA-25-235s and related versions
- Serial number
- 25-3790
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- A47196 (octal 51070626)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 24, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 31, 2014
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00893307
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Plane And Simple Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3995 Eckert Ave SE
Delano, MN 55328-5233
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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 N386AB, 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 Plane And Simple Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 24, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 31, 2014, 48 years after the 1966 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 25-3790 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N386AB 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 N386AB: Accident on July 4, 2026 at Forest Lake, MN: 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-25-235 · operated under 091
On July 4, 2026, about 0942 central daylight time, a Piper PA-25-235 airplane, N386AB, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Forest Lake, Minnesota. The pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations part 91 banner tow flight. The pilot reported that he completed a normal preflight inspection and engine runup. After a successful banner hook, the airplane struggled to climb. The pilot increased the throttle and fuel mixture to full, but the airplane could not maintain level flight. The pilot jettisoned the banner, and the …
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN26LA242 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