Piper PA-28R-201
N61260 is a Piper PA-28R-201, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Syracuse Flight School INC, a corporation in Syracuse, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 2004 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 10, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28R-201 · all PA-28R-201s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28R-7837255
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A7F96F (octal 51774557)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 19, 2004
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 10, 1978
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00061246
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Syracuse Flight School INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 60 Presidential Plz Apt 904
Syracuse, NY 13202-2437
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N61260, 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 Syracuse Flight School INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 19, 2004, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 10, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28R-7837255 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N61260 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 150J (serial 15070925, cancelled August 24, 1972); Consolidated Vultee BT-13A (serial 9090, cancelled February 15, 1956). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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]
1 NTSB record under N61260: Accident on December 21, 1985 at Bristol, CT: 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-28R-201 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC86LA051 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