Piper PA-24-260
N73T is a Piper PA-24-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Lucid Thought Consulting LLC, an LLC in Terre Haute, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 27, 2011 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 22, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-24-260 · all PA-24-260s and related versions
- Serial number
- 24-4991
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 135 mph
- Transponder code
- A9CA5B (octal 52345133)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 27, 2011
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 22, 1985
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00670031
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lucid Thought Consulting LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 106 Country Club Rd
Terre Haute, IN 47803-1466
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N73T, 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 Lucid Thought Consulting LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 27, 2011, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 22, 1985, 14 years after the 1971 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 24-4991 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N73T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Curry MIDGET MUSTANG (serial 473, cancelled October 19, 1981). 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 N73T: Accident on April 27, 2022 at Terre Haute, IN: 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-24-260 · operated under 091
A hard landing, which resulted in the failure of the right main landing gear outer bearing and collapse of the landing gear.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22LA184 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