Piper PA-28-140
N5980U is a Piper PA-28-140, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Tucson, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 20, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-140 · all PA-28-140s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-26870
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 107 mph
- Transponder code
- A7BD8A (octal 51736612)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 20, 2019
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00232055
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- T A Aviation LLC
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 85082
Tucson, AZ 85754-5082 - Co-owners
- Ferstl Mark R / Gregg Scott D / Hervert James 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
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The public federal record on N5980U, 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 T A Aviation LLC, a co-owned, certificate issued May 20, 2019, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-26870 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5980U according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 8, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5980U. 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 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