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N6217C

Piper PA-28-235

N6217C is a Piper PA-28-235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Petersburg, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 27, 2001 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 26, 1996.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-235 · all PA-28-235s and related versions
Serial number
28-7310114
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1973
Cruising speed
107 mph
Transponder code
A81D44 (octal 52016504)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 27, 2001
Expires
August 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 25, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · August 26, 1996
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00165761

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Butler Donald D
Type
Individual
Address
7667 Chilcote Hollow Rd
Petersburg, PA 16669-3033

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

1970-07-02Lockheed 1049B-55 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N6217C, 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 Butler Donald D, an individual, certificate issued February 27, 2001, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 26, 1996, 23 years after the 1973 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 28-7310114 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N6217C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed 1049B-55 (serial 4525, cancelled July 2, 1970). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N6217C. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 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