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N5851V

Piper PA-28-151

N5851V is a Piper PA-28-151, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Grass Valley, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 1985 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 10, 1977. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-151 · all PA-28-151s and related versions
Serial number
28-7715273
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1977
Cruising speed
80 mph
Transponder code
A78B0A (octal 51705412)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 29, 1985
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · June 10, 1977
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00481735

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mcconnell Thomas E
Type
Co-owned
Address
18744 Cherokee Rd
Grass Valley, CA 95949-7258
Co-owners
Mcconnell Karen

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Documents on file 1

2026-09-24Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Earlier use of this number 1

1950-02-27Consolidated Vultee BT-13A · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5851V, 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 Mcconnell Thomas E, a co-owned, certificate issued July 29, 1985, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 10, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7715273 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5851V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Consolidated Vultee BT-13A (serial 5845, cancelled February 27, 1950). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 24, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5851V. 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