Piper PA-20
N7635K 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 an individual in Nevada City, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 2004 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; to show compliance with regulations, dated March 3, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-20 · all PA-20s and related versions
- Serial number
- 20-454
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1950
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- AA4FBE (octal 52447676)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 7, 2004
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition; To show compliance with regulations · March 3, 2006
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00323457
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Grimes John A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 1324
Nevada City, CA 95959-1324
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 N7635K, 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 Grimes John A, an individual, certificate issued April 7, 2004, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 3, 2006, 56 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 20-454 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7635K 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]
2 NTSB records under N7635K: Accident on June 18, 2026 at Cordova, AK: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Accident on August 3, 2008 at Grass Valley, CA: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA20 · operated under 091
On June 18, 2026, at approximately 1200, an experimental Piper PA-20 airplane, N7635K, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident about 44 miles southeast of Cordova, Alaska. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to a close family member, the pilot departed Brownsville Airpark (2CL1), Brownsville, California on the afternoon of June 15 and was en route to Fairbanks, Alaska where he was relocating with his girlfriend to pursue a job as a bush pilot after taking a year off from flying. Accordin…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-20 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control due to his foot slipping off one rudder pedal while braking.
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