Piper PA-24-250
N8078P is a Piper PA-24-250, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1962. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Comanche Partners, a partnership in Manhattan, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 25, 2006 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 13, 1962. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-24-250 · all PA-24-250s and related versions
- Serial number
- 24-3326
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1962
- Cruising speed
- 135 mph
- Transponder code
- AAFF5C (octal 52577534)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 25, 2006
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 13, 1962
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00200462
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Comanche Partners
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- PO Box 461
Manhattan, MT 59741-0461
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 1
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The public federal record on N8078P, 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 Comanche Partners, a partnership, certificate issued April 25, 2006, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 13, 1962, consistent with the 1962 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-3326 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8078P according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 21, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N8078P: Accident on October 20, 1999 at Bozeman, MT: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-24-250 · operated under 091
The pilot-in-command's (CFI) failure to take remedial action. Factors include the private pilot letting the airspeed get too low.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA00LA006 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