Piper PA-23-160
N4121P 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 Riggin Flight Service INC, a corporation in Madison, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 2, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 18, 1959.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-23-160 · all PA-23-160s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-23 Apache and Aztec family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 23-1601
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- A4DE17 (octal 51157027)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 2, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 18, 1959
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00291424
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Riggin Flight Service INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1600 Airport Dr
Madison, SD 57042-7217
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N4121P links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-23 Apache and Aztec 1,315 registered
- Piper 44,847 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-320 series 27,313 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Riggin Flight Service INC 39 aircraft in the fleet
- Madison, SD 68 aircraft registered in this town
- Madison Municipal · MDS
- South Dakota 2,276 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-23 Apache and Aztec 76 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-23 Apache and Aztec 516 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-23 Apache and Aztec 569 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N4121P, 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 Riggin Flight Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 2, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 18, 1959, consistent with the 1959 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 23-1601 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4121P 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N4121P. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data