Piper PA-24-260
N503JA 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 co-owned owners in Brea, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 28, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 3, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-24-260 · all PA-24-260s and related versions
- Serial number
- 24-4165
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 135 mph
- Transponder code
- A645DE (octal 51442736)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 28, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 3, 1965
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00222241
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Liem David H
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 510 Linden Way
Brea, CA 92821-5231 - Co-owners
- Liem Daniel L
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N503JA, 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 Liem David H, a co-owned, certificate issued June 28, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 3, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-4165 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N503JA 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 N503JA: Accident on August 8, 2023 at Fullerton, CA: minor 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 PA-24-260 · operated under 091
The separation of the stabilator actuator from the stabilator tab, which resulted in pitch control surface flutter and structural damage.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR23LA317 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