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N5521Z

Piper PA-22-108

Valid Virginia

N5521Z is a Piper PA-22-108, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1962. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hopewell, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 18, 2014 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated October 10, 1963.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-22-108 · all PA-22-108s and related versions
Serial number
22-9309
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1962
Cruising speed
94 mph
Transponder code
A7096C (octal 51604554)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 18, 2014
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
October 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Other · October 10, 1963
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00553465

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Tessenear James A
Type
Individual
Address
427 Cobblestone Dr
Hopewell, VA 23860-4162

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N5521Z, 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 Tessenear James A, an individual, certificate issued February 18, 2014, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; other, dated October 10, 1963, consistent with the 1962 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 22-9309 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5521Z according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5521Z. 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