Piper PA-28-151
N3986X is a Piper PA-28-151, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Patterson, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 25, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 19, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-151 · all PA-28-151s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7515439
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 80 mph
- Transponder code
- A4A3C1 (octal 51121701)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 25, 2022
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 19, 1975
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00120824
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fitzwater Randy
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 829 State Highway 143
Patterson, MO 63956-7177
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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 N3986X, 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 Fitzwater Randy, an individual, certificate issued July 25, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7515439 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3986X 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 N3986X: Accident on May 2, 1990 at St. Louis, MO: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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-28-151 · operated under 091
INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND PROPER TOUCHDOWN POINT NOT ATTAINED BY THE PILOT IN COMMAND.
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- 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