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N5989W

Piper PA-28-140

Valid Georgia

N5989W is a Piper PA-28-140, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Peachtree City, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 20, 1968.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-140 · all PA-28-140s and related versions
Serial number
28-24792
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1968
Cruising speed
107 mph
Transponder code
A7BEC7 (octal 51737307)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 28, 2024
Expires
February 28, 2031
Last FAA action
February 28, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · August 20, 1968
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00492055

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Smith Kevin L
Type
Individual
Address
109 Shawville Ln
Peachtree City, GA 30269-2751

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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5989W, 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 Smith Kevin L, an individual, certificate issued February 28, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 20, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-24792 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5989W 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5989W: Accident on January 26, 1982 at Sussex, NJ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

NYC82DA020Accident on January 26, 1982 at Sussex, NJ: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-140 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data