Piper PA-23-160
N5272A is a Piper PA-23-160, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hartland, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 31, 2020 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 26, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-23-160 · all PA-23-160s and related versions
- Serial number
- 23-2019
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- A6A58E (octal 51522616)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 31, 2020
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 26, 1994
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00175978
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Welch Kevin R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1018 Parkview St
Hartland, WI 53029-9332
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N5272A, 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 Welch Kevin R, an individual, certificate issued March 31, 2020, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 26, 1994, 33 years after the 1961 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 23-2019 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5272A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 210N (serial 21063339, cancelled December 29, 1980); Cessna 310 (serial 35472, cancelled January 8, 1957). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N5272A: Accident on September 30, 1994 at West Chicago, IL: no 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-23-160 · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to use the manual hydraulic pump to lower the landing gear. Factors were the failure of the fuel selector handle, the subsequent fuel starvation, and the pilot's failure to properly crossfeed and restart the left engine.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI94LA351 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