Piper PA-32-260
N56684 is a Piper PA-32-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Hickory Air Associates INC, a corporation in Granite Falls, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 24, 1991 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 29, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32-260 · all PA-32-260s and related versions
- Serial number
- 32-7400004
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A740C1 (octal 51640301)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 24, 1991
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 29, 1973
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00410476
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hickory Air Associates INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 5464 Backshore Dr
Granite Falls, NC 28630-8810
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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 N56684, 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 Hickory Air Associates INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 24, 1991, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 29, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32-7400004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N56684 according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N56684. 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