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N51WE

Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28R-201

Valid Kansas

N51WE is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28R-201, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2014. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Columbia Asset Trust CORP Trustee, a corporation in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 12, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 13, 2014.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper Aircraft Inc
Model
PA-28R-201 · all PA-28R-201s and related versions
Serial number
2844148
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-C1C6 · 200 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2014
Transponder code
A6610F (octal 51460417)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 12, 2026
Expires
January 31, 2033
Last FAA action
January 12, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · May 13, 2014
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01145098

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Columbia Asset Trust CORP Trustee
Type
Corporation
Address
7804 E Funston St Ste 210
Wichita, KS 67207-3107

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 1

2014-07-21Jonker Sailplanes JS 1B · exported to Czech Republic · Sale reported

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N51WE, 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 Columbia Asset Trust CORP Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued January 12, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated May 13, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2844148 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N51WE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Jonker Sailplanes JS 1B (serial 1B-014, cancelled July 21, 2014). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N51WE: Accident on March 7, 1988 at State College, PA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

NYC88DGT01Accident on March 7, 1988 at State College, PA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 44-11153

Aircraft on the NTSB record: North American F-51D · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC88DGT01 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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