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N7716Z

Piper PA-25-235

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMinnesota

N7716Z is a Piper PA-25-235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Big Aerial Sign Service LLC, an LLC in Delano, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 26, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial advertising; other, dated May 24, 1995.

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-25-235 · all PA-25-235s and related versions
Built of
steel tube and fabric
The fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. A crop sprayer; the fabric covering is easy to repair in the field. This is how the Piper PA-25 Pawnee family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
25-3881
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
1
Year built
1966
Cruising speed
93 mph
Transponder code
AA7000 (octal 52470000)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 26, 2024
Expires
November 30, 2031
Last FAA action
November 26, 2024
Airworthiness
RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Aerial advertising; OtherFAA certificate purpose code 30 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 24, 1995
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00473507

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Big Aerial Sign Service LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
3995 Eckert Ave SE
Delano, MN 55328-5233

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N7716Z links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Delano, MN 24 aircraft registered in this town
  • Minnesota 6,943 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N7716Z.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N7716Z, 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 Big Aerial Sign Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 26, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 24, 1995, 29 years after the 1966 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25-3881 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7716Z 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 N7716Z. 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 November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data