Piper PA-28-151
N40987 is a Piper PA-28-151, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cincinnati, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 27, 2002 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-151 · all PA-28-151s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7415126
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 80 mph
- Transponder code
- A4D1A0 (octal 51150640)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 27, 2002
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00811304
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Besl Thomas J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4442 Ridgeview Ave Apt 4
Cincinnati, OH 45238-5057
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N40987, 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 Besl Thomas J, an individual, certificate issued June 27, 2002, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7415126 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40987 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J5A (serial 5-1215, cancelled June 7, 1949). 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 N40987. 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