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N4253P

Piper PA-23-160

Valid Texas

N4253P 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 an individual in Georgetown, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 1988 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 23, 1959.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-23-160 · all PA-23-160s and related versions
Serial number
23-1752
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
A51101 (octal 51210401)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 8, 1988
Expires
February 28, 2029
Last FAA action
July 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · June 23, 1959
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00451874

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bowles Alan B DBA
Type
Individual
Address
501 Wilbur Wright Dr
Georgetown, TX 78626
Co-owners
Fly By Night

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N4253P, 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 Bowles Alan B DBA, an individual, certificate issued November 8, 1988, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated June 23, 1959, consistent with the 1959 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 23-1752 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4253P according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N4253P. 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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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