Piper PA-28-160
N5245W is a Piper PA-28-160, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1962. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Corry, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 29, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated January 11, 1962. 2 documents are on file: loan or lien (security agreement), bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-160 · all PA-28-160s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-287
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1962
- Cruising speed
- 107 mph
- Transponder code
- A69AE6 (octal 51515346)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 29, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · January 11, 1962
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00572445
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Swartzfager Lee C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8476 Route 426
Corry, PA 16407-5612
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 2
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The public federal record on N5245W, 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 Swartzfager Lee C, an individual, certificate issued May 29, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated January 11, 1962, consistent with the 1962 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-287 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5245W according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (October 1, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5245W. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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