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N7770B

Piper PA-28-151

Valid New York

N7770B is a Piper PA-28-151, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in East Hampton, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 15, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 17, 1974.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-151 · all PA-28-151s and related versions
Serial number
28-7515108
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1974
Cruising speed
80 mph
Transponder code
AA8562 (octal 52502542)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 15, 2024
Expires
February 28, 2031
Last FAA action
February 22, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · October 17, 1974
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00651823

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Dunning John L
Type
Co-owned
Address
13 Ganley Ln
East Hampton, NY 11937-1227
Co-owners
Ratsep Rudolph C

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 2

1999-03-10Beech C-45G · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1957-11-05Douglas DC-6A · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N7770B, 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 Dunning John L, a co-owned, certificate issued February 15, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 17, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7515108 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N7770B was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech C-45G (serial AF-320, cancelled March 10, 1999); Douglas DC-6A (serial 513831, cancelled November 5, 1957). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N7770B: Accident on December 10, 1992 at Elkridge, MD: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

BFO93FA016Accident on December 10, 1992 at Elkridge, MD: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: AF-320

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech C-45G · operated under 135

FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO PROPERLY SECURE THE CARGO, WHICH ALLOWED A SHIFT IN THE CENTER OF GRAVITY DURING A MISSED APPROACH MANEUVER AND RESULTED IN SUBSEQUENT LOSS OF AIRCRAFT CONTROL AND FLYING SPEED. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO ASSURE THE AIRPLANE WAS LOADED WITHIN ITS PROPER WEIGHT AND BALANCE LIMITATIONS.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO93FA016 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 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