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N5973W

Piper PA-28-160

Valid Florida

N5973W is a Piper PA-28-160, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Valant Group INC, a corporation in Valrico, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 18, 1990 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 1, 1967.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-160 · all PA-28-160s and related versions
Serial number
28-3919
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1967
Cruising speed
107 mph
Transponder code
A7BA3E (octal 51735076)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 18, 1990
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
March 5, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · March 1, 1967
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00462315

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Valant Group INC
Type
Corporation
Address
3014 Sprawling Oaks Pl
Valrico, FL 33596-5775

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N5973W, 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 Valant Group INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 18, 1990, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated March 1, 1967, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-3919 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5973W according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5973W. 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