Piper PA-28-161
N601FT is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1989. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Deland, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 29, 1989. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2841195
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1989
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A7CB85 (octal 51745605)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 17, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 29, 1989
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00534611
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sanson Paul H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 40 Melodie Ln
Deland, FL 32724-1306
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 N601FT, 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 Sanson Paul H, an individual, certificate issued May 17, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 29, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2841195 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N601FT according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 9, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N601FT: Accident on June 29, 2016 at Merritt Island, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA 28 · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power during the landing roll, and an engine fire during a subsequent engine restart attempt. Neither the cause for the loss of engine power nor the source of the fire could be determined because the airplane was not made available for examination.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16LA352 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data