Piper PA-32-260
N3997F is a Piper PA-32-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Floyds Knobs, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 13, 2014 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 6, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32-260 · all PA-32-260s and related versions
- Serial number
- 32-7600021
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A4A78B (octal 51123613)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 13, 2014
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 6, 1976
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00260804
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Matthews David L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6899 Scottsville Navilleton Rd
Floyds Knobs, IN 47119-8614
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N3997F, 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 Matthews David L, an individual, certificate issued March 13, 2014, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 6, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32-7600021 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3997F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172 (serial 36897, cancelled September 19, 1958). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3997F. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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