Piper PA-36-285
N57824 is a Piper PA-36-285, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 1 seat. It is registered to West Central Ag-Air INC, a corporation in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 2009 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated January 10, 1977.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-36-285 · all PA-36-285s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. The Pawnee Brave crop sprayer: all-metal. This is how the Piper PA-36 Pawnee Brave family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 36-7660132
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor 6-285-A · 285 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 255 mph
- Transponder code
- A76EDC (octal 51667334)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 14, 2009
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 10, 1977
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00731515
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- West Central Ag-Air INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 178
Fergus Falls, MN 56538-0178
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N57824 links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-36 Pawnee Brave 99 registered
- Piper 44,838 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental 6-285-A 35 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- West Central Ag-Air INC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Fergus Falls, MN 28 aircraft registered in this town
- Fergus Falls Regional · FFM
- Minnesota 6,942 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-36 Pawnee Brave 19 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-36 Pawnee Brave 39 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-36 Pawnee Brave 109 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental 6-285-A 2 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N57824, 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 West Central Ag-Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 14, 2009, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated January 10, 1977, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36-7660132 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N57824 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]
1 NTSB record under N57824: Accident on June 17, 1991 at Fergus Falls, MN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-36-285 · operated under 137
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE CLEARANCE FROM OBSTACLES DURING AERIAL APLLICATION OPERATIONS.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data