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N8069S

Piper PA-32R-301T

Valid Colorado

N8069S is a Piper PA-32R-301T, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 7 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Salida, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2019 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 22, 1982.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-32R-301T · all PA-32R-301Ts and related versions
Serial number
32R-8229028
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
Seats
7
Year built
1981
Transponder code
AAFBCB (octal 52575713)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 22, 2019
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 16, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · January 22, 1982
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00100592

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gates Joel L
Type
Co-owned
Address
4307 E US Highway 50
Salida, CO 81201-9603
Co-owners
Gates Janet M

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8069S, 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 Gates Joel L, a co-owned, certificate issued January 22, 2019, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated January 22, 1982, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32R-8229028 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8069S 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N8069S: Accident on July 20, 1988 at Chicago, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

CHI88LA170Accident on July 20, 1988 at Chicago, IL: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32R-301T · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI88LA170 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