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N4828S

Piper PA-32-260

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesPuerto Rico

N4828S is a Piper PA-32-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Puerto Rico Aircraft Leasing CORP, a corporation in Ceiba, Puerto Rico. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 10, 2017 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 11, 1969.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Puerto Rico Aircraft Leasing Corporation, so it can be flown for hire.

Where is it now Last seen October 10 at 2:25 pm.

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-32-260 · all PA-32-260s 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
32-1259
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 · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1969
Cruising speed
126 mph
Transponder code
A5F388 (octal 51371610)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
October 10, 2017
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 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 · November 11, 1969
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00850245

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Puerto Rico Aircraft Leasing CORP
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
PO Box 1305
Ceiba, PR 00735

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N4828S links to the rest of the register

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The public federal record on N4828S, 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 Puerto Rico Aircraft Leasing CORP, a corporation, certificate issued October 10, 2017, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated November 11, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32-1259 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4828S 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 N4828S. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data