Piper PA-24-260
N4284 is a Piper PA-24-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sheridan, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 27, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 2, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-24-260 · all PA-24-260s and related versions
- Serial number
- 24-4284
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-D4A5 · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 135 mph
- Transponder code
- A51C3B (octal 51216073)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 27, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 1, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 2, 1965
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00541931
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Clements Eric C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2266 Papago Ct
Sheridan, WY 82801-5829
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4284, 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 Clements Eric C, an individual, certificate issued January 27, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 2, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-4284 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4284 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: North American AT-6C (serial 42-84365, cancelled February 17, 2005); Savage ROTOWAY SCORPION (serial 3697, cancelled December 5, 1977). 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]
1 NTSB record under N4284: Accident on February 2, 2024 at Cherokee, OK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA24 · operated under 091
A partial loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined. Contributing to the accident was the presence of ground fog, which hindered the landing approach and resulted in the pilot inadvertently landing long and impacting a fence during the attempted go-around.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24LA104 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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