Piper PA-32-260
N3971R is a Piper PA-32-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lake Park, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2016 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 17, 1966.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32-260 · all PA-32-260s and related versions
- Serial number
- 32-635
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A49F55 (octal 51117525)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 9, 2016
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- June 15, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 17, 1966
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00003453
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Resnick Quinn A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 301 Lake Shore Dr Apt 511
Lake Park, FL 33403-3566
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3971R, 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 Resnick Quinn A, an individual, certificate issued February 9, 2016, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 17, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32-635 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3971R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 28-7105076, cancelled February 3, 2016). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N3971R: Accident on November 24, 2015 at Lawrenceville, GA: serious 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 PA28 · operated under 091
The flight instructor's inadequate fuel management, which resulted in a total loss of engine power during initial climb due to fuel starvation and a subsequent forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA16LA051 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