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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026Piper J4A
N6581H is a Piper J4A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1939. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Rye, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 16, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated January 26, 2005.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J4A · all J4As and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Piper J4 Cub Coupe 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
- 4-831
- 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 · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1939
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- A8ACF5 (octal 52126365)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 16, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 16, 2024
- 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 · January 26, 2005
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00237678
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cook Mike R
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 115
Rye, CO 81069-0115 - Co-owners
- Cook Julie G
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
Connections how N6581H links to the rest of the register
- Piper J4 Cub Coupe 197 registered
- Piper 44,840 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental C85 series 4,672 aircraft with this engine series · 85 hp
- Rye, CO 11 aircraft registered in this town
- Colorado 7,485 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper J4 Cub Coupe 9 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper J4 Cub Coupe 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper J4 Cub Coupe 35 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental C85 series 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental C85 series 12 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N6581H.json.
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The public federal record on N6581H, 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 Cook Mike R, a co-owned, certificate issued April 16, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 26, 2005, 66 years after the 1939 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4-831 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6581H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 19772, cancelled August 21, 1989). 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 N6581H: Accident on August 22, 2023 at Cleburne, TX: 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 J4 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control while landing in gusty crosswind conditions.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data