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N74AB

Piper PA-23-160

N74AB is a Piper PA-23-160, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Aerial Digital Images LLC, an LLC in Huntington Beach, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 2, 2003 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-23-160 · all PA-23-160s and related versions
Serial number
23-1656
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
5
Year built
1959
Cruising speed
150 mph
Transponder code
A9F033 (octal 52370063)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 2, 2003
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00721554

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Aerial Digital Images LLC
Type
LLC
Address
21062 Brookhurst St Ste 102
Huntington Beach, CA 92646-7404

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N74AB, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Aerial Digital Images LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 2, 2003, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 23-1656 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N74AB according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N74AB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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