Piper PA-23-250
N77KK is a Piper PA-23-250, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Mensch Aviation LLC, an LLC in Hastings, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 2019 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 5, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-23-250 · all PA-23-250s and related versions
- Serial number
- 278154002
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming TIO-540-C1A · 250 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- AA6799 (octal 52463631)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 5, 2019
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 5, 2008
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00452229
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mensch Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 418
Hastings, MI 49058-0418
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N77KK, 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 Mensch Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 5, 2019, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 5, 2008, 28 years after the 1980 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 278154002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N77KK was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R44 (serial 1052, cancelled October 5, 2005); Knowles THORP T-18 (serial 492, cancelled July 16, 1998). 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]
2 NTSB records under N77KK: Accident on January 23, 2004 at Vero Beach, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on December 4, 1988 at Lincoln, CA: minor 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: Robinson R44 · operated under 091
The failure of the pilot to maintain clearance with bushed resulting in in-flight contact and susequent dynamic roll-over.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA04CA048 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Knowles THORP T-18 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX89DVG02 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