Piper PA-28-140
N4691R is a Piper PA-28-140, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Best Equipment Leasing LLC, an LLC in Bakersfield, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 23, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 1, 1966.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-140 · all PA-28-140s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-21453
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 107 mph
- Transponder code
- A5BD95 (octal 51336625)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 23, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 1, 1966
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00263364
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Best Equipment Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 410 E Planz Rd
Bakersfield, CA 93307-4400
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N4691R, 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 Best Equipment Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 23, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 1, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-21453 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4691R 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]
1 NTSB record under N4691R: Accident on June 10, 2008 at Brenham, TX: 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: Cessna 150G · operated under 091
The sudden windshift (crosswind gust), rendering directional control impossible. Contributing factors in this accident were the high speed during the aborted takeoff and trees.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN08LA102 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data