Piper PA-11
N78735 is a Piper PA-11, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ralph, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 20, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-11 · all PA-11s and related versions
- Serial number
- 11-1487
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- AAAD66 (octal 52526546)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 16, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 16, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 20, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00065000
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Holt Bill R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11257 Skull Creek Pl
Ralph, SD 57650-5506
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 N78735, 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 Holt Bill R, an individual, certificate issued September 16, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 20, 1956, 9 years after the 1947 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 11-1487 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78735 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N78735. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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