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N8120B

Piper PA-28-161

Valid Indiana

N8120B is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Great Northern Aircraft INC, a corporation in Griffith, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2003 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 10, 1979.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
Serial number
28-8016134
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1979
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
AB1324 (octal 52611444)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 25, 2003
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · October 10, 1979
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00150272

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Great Northern Aircraft INC
Type
Corporation
Address
1705 E Main St
Griffith, IN 46319-2941

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 1

1975-07-09Cessna 172 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8120B, 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 Great Northern Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 25, 2003, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 10, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8016134 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8120B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172 (serial 29920, cancelled July 9, 1975). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8120B. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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