Piper PA-32R-301T
N8159S is a Piper PA-32R-301T, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 7 seats. It is registered to an individual in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 20, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32R-301T · all PA-32R-301Ts and related versions
- Serial number
- 32R-8029059
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AB1F93 (octal 52617623)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 6, 2021
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 20, 1980
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00040132
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gaither David G Executor
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 16600 Park Row
Houston, TX 77084-5019
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8159S, 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 Gaither David G Executor, an individual, certificate issued August 6, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32R-8029059 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8159S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150F (serial 15061759, cancelled August 26, 1965). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
1 NTSB record under N8159S: Accident on August 12, 1987 at Mexia, TX: no 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-32R · operated under 135
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW87FA197 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