Piper PA-24-260
N5788 is a Piper PA-24-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Knot Speed LTD, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 27, 2004 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 27, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-24-260 · all PA-24-260s and related versions
- Serial number
- 24-4580
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 135 mph
- Transponder code
- A76F91 (octal 51667621)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 27, 2004
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- November 14, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 27, 1968
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00911545
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Knot Speed LTD
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 108 W 13Th St
Wilmington, DE 19801-1145
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5788, 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 Knot Speed LTD, a corporation, certificate issued July 27, 2004, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 27, 1968, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-4580 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5788 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Waco GXE (serial 1566, cancelled August 27, 1938). 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 N5788: Accident on July 2, 1999 at Houston, TX: 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-24-260 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain the proper descent rate during a forced landing, which resulted in a runway undershoot. Factors were the total loss of engine power for an undetermined reason and the dusk light conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW99LA178 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