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N5121W

Piper PA-28-160

Valid Missouri

N5121W is a Piper PA-28-160, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Independence, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 27, 1991 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 31, 1961. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-160 · all PA-28-160s and related versions
Serial number
28-146
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1961
Cruising speed
107 mph
Transponder code
A66B6D (octal 51465555)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 27, 1991
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 29, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · October 31, 1961
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00881365

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Carroll Thomas F
Type
Individual
Address
16106 E 35Th St S
Independence, MO 64055-3055

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Documents on file 1

2026-09-03Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

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The public federal record on N5121W, 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 Carroll Thomas F, an individual, certificate issued February 27, 1991, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated October 31, 1961, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-146 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5121W according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 3, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5121W. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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