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N60CS

Piper PA-24-250

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesFlorida

N60CS is a Piper PA-24-250, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Air Flight Enterprises INC, a corporation in South Daytona, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 26, 2019 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 27, 2019.

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-24-250 · all PA-24-250s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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
24405
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 O-540-A1A5 · 250 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
4
Year built
1958
Cruising speed
135 mph
Transponder code
A7C529 (octal 51742451)

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 26, 2019
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 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 · December 27, 2019
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01084517

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Air Flight Enterprises INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
2430 S Nova Rd
South Daytona, FL 32119-8838

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 0

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

Earlier use of this number 1

2013-07-19Piper PA-38-112 · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Connections how N60CS links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • South Daytona, FL 13 aircraft registered in this town
  • Florida 21,704 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N60CS.json.

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N60CS, 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 Air Flight Enterprises INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 26, 2019, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 27, 2019, 61 years after the 1958 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24405 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N60CS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-38-112 (serial 38-78A0162, cancelled July 19, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N60CS: Accident on October 15, 1986 at Leroy, NY: 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

NYC87LA019Accident on October 15, 1986 at Leroy, NY: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 38-78A0162

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-38 · 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data