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N4122K

Piper PA-32R-301

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesColorado

N4122K is a Piper PA-32R-301, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 7 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 17, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 25, 1998. 2 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan or lien (security agreement).

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-32R-301 · all PA-32R-301s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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-32 Cherokee Six, Lance and Saratoga 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
3246106
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
7
Year built
1998
Transponder code
A4DE36 (octal 51157066)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 17, 2022
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 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 · March 25, 1998
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00307141

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wargo Michael S
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
4325 Grantham Ct
Colorado Springs, CO 80906-4365
Co-owners
Chang Yu Chen

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 2

2026-10-26Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)
2026-10-26Loan or lien (security agreement)

Earlier use of this number 1

—Ryan NAVION · Valid registration

Connections how N4122K links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
Live

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The public federal record on N4122K, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Wargo Michael S, a co-owned, certificate issued November 17, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated March 25, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3246106 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4122K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ryan NAVION (serial NAV-4-1122, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (October 26, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N4122K. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data