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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-36-285 · all PA-36-285s and related versions
- Serial number
- 36-7660132
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 6-285-A · 285 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 255 mph
- Transponder code
- A76EDC (octal 51667334)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 14, 2009
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · January 10, 1977
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00731515
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- West Central Ag-Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 178
Fergus Falls, MN 56538-0178
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
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]
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-36-285 · operated under 137
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE CLEARANCE FROM OBSTACLES DURING AERIAL APLLICATION OPERATIONS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI91DER06 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