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N80964

Piper PA-28-161

N80964 is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Three Wing Flight School LLC, an LLC in Stratford, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 2, 2020 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 22, 1982.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
Serial number
28-8216108
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1981
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
AB0693 (octal 52603223)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 2, 2020
Expires
November 30, 2027
Last FAA action
April 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · January 22, 1982
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00770622

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Three Wing Flight School LLC
Type
LLC
Address
400 Great Meadow Rd
Stratford, CT 06615-7583

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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 N80964, 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 Three Wing Flight School LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 2, 2020, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

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

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8216108 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N80964 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 N80964: Accident on June 29, 1997 at Block Island, RI: minor injuries, destroyed. 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

IAD97LA094Accident on June 29, 1997 at Block Island, RI: minor injuries, destroyed.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-161 · operated under 091

The pilot's failure to comply with the airplane's takeoff checklist and his delayed decision to abort the takeoff.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for IAD97LA094 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