Piper PA-24-250
N5913P is a Piper PA-24-250, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Mercer Gary L, a partnership in Eaton, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 2008 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 4, 1959. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 1:46 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-24-250 · all PA-24-250s 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. This is how the Piper PA-24 Comanche 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
- 24-999
- 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 · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 135 mph
- Transponder code
- A7A3ED (octal 51721755)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 5, 2008
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 4, 1959
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00141895
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mercer Gary L
- Type
- PartnershipFAA type of owner code 2 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 80 Lakengren Dr
Eaton, OH 45320-2680 - Co-owners
- Mercer Gail M
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 1
Connections how N5913P links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-24 Comanche 2,428 registered
- Piper 44,844 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-540 series 5,245 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Mercer Gary L 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Eaton, OH 8 aircraft registered in this town
- Ohio 8,522 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-24 Comanche 51 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-24 Comanche 246 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-24 Comanche 484 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-540 series 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540 series 304 reports since 1995
- Where N5913P is now · Last seen October 15 at 1:46 pm.
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The public federal record on N5913P, 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 Mercer Gary L, a partnership, certificate issued November 5, 2008, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 4, 1959, consistent with the 1959 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-999 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5913P according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 13, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5913P. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data