Piper PA-24-250
N6852P is a Piper PA-24-250, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Minot, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 6, 2014 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 29, 1960.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-24-250 · all PA-24-250s and related versions
- Serial number
- 24-1986
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 135 mph
- Transponder code
- A91876 (octal 52214166)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 6, 2014
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 29, 1960
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00270087
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hauf Michael L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1124 13Th St NW
Minot, ND 58703-2066
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N6852P, 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 Hauf Michael L, an individual, certificate issued June 6, 2014, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 29, 1960, consistent with the 1960 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-1986 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6852P according to the deregistered file. [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 N6852P: Accident on June 28, 2026 at Hazen, ND: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 PA24 · operated under 091
On June 28, 2026, about 1317 central daylight time, a Piper PA-24-250, N6852P, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Hazen, North Dakota. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to a witness, who lived near the Mercer County Regional Airport (HZE), Hazen, North Dakota, he was walking from his barn to his house when he saw the accident airplane taking off from runway 15. He said it looked normal and after takeoff he watched as the pilot retracted the landing gear and he climbed up a co…
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- 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