Piper PA-28-161
N624FT is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Florida Institute Of Technology, a corporation in Melbourne, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 22, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 26, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7916446
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A825A8 (octal 52022650)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 22, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 6, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 26, 1979
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00060333
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Florida Institute Of Technology
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 150 W University Blvd
Melbourne, FL 32901-8995
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N624FT, 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 Florida Institute Of Technology, a corporation, certificate issued June 22, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 26, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7916446 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N624FT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: American General Acft Corp AG5B (serial 10031, cancelled November 3, 2004). 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 N624FT: Accident on November 27, 1994 at Lakeport, 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: American General Aircraft AG5B · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO REPOSITION THE FUEL SELECTOR AFTER TOTAL LOSS OF ENGINE POWER DUE TO FUEL STARVATION. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS HER LACK OF TOTAL EXPERIENCE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA95LA029 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
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