Piper PA-28
N5087W is a Piper PA-28, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lancaster, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 1, 2012 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 22, 1961.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28 · all PA-28s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-96
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 107 mph
- Transponder code
- A65B0A (octal 51455412)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 1, 2012
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · September 22, 1961
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00461205
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcgough Craig N
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 605
Lancaster, TX 75146-0605
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 N5087W, 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 Mcgough Craig N, an individual, certificate issued November 1, 2012, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated September 22, 1961, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-96 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5087W 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 N5087W: Accident on November 25, 1998 at Greenville, TX: serious injuries, minor 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-28-160 · operated under 091
The partial loss of engine power due to a blocked muffler exhaust pipe/manifold as a result of a loose internal baffle. Factors were the improper maintenance by other maintenance personnel and the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW99LA036 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