Piper PA-20
N7053K is a Piper PA-20, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1950. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Matlad INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 4, 2003 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 14, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-20 · all PA-20s and related versions
- Serial number
- 20-160
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1950
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- A969EC (octal 52264754)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 4, 2003
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · July 14, 1956
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00810827
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Matlad INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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.
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The public federal record on N7053K, 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 Matlad INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 4, 2003, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 14, 1956, 6 years after the 1950 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 20-160 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7053K 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 N7053K: Accident on April 28, 2005 at Thomaston, GA: 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-20 · operated under 091
The unapproved repair of the tailwheel rudder arm assembly, which resulted in an overload failure during touchdown and subsequent loss of control of the airplane and on-ground collision with an object.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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