Piper PA-23-160
N4085P is a Piper PA-23-160, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Tango Bravo Aviation LLC, an LLC in Taylorsville, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 25, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 13, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-23-160 · all PA-23-160s and related versions
- Serial number
- 23-1563
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- A4CD6E (octal 51146556)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 25, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 13, 1959
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00581274
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tango Bravo Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 332 Summerland Rd
Taylorsville, MS 39168-4414
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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 N4085P, 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 Tango Bravo Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 25, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 13, 1959, consistent with the 1959 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 23-1563 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4085P 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 N4085P: Accident on September 7, 2025 at Santa Teresa, NM: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-23-160 · operated under 091
On September 6, 2025, about 1925 mountain daylight time, a Piper PA-23-160, N4085P, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Santa Teresa, New Mexico. The pilot sustained serious injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot reported that while the twin-engine airplane was being refueled, he completed his performance planning. Subsequently he entered the airplane, started both engines, taxied to the runup area and performed engine runup and magneto drop checks, with no abnormalities noted. After transm…
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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