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N8161S

Cirrus Design Corp SR20

Valid Wyoming

N8161S is a Cirrus Design Corp SR20, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Southern Aircraft Consultancy INC Trustee, a corporation in Casper, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 23, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 15, 2004.

Aircraft

Maker
Cirrus Design Corp
Model
SR20 · all SR20s and related versions
Serial number
1385
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-360 SER · 300 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2004
Transponder code
AB2232 (octal 52621062)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 23, 2026
Expires
February 28, 2033
Last FAA action
February 23, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · January 15, 2004
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00083879

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Southern Aircraft Consultancy INC Trustee
Type
Corporation
Address
330 S Center St Ste 300
Casper, WY 82601-2873

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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

1996-09-09Piper PA-28-161 · Second attempt to mail the triennial form, no response

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N8161S, 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 Southern Aircraft Consultancy INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued February 23, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated January 15, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1385 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8161S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 288016217, cancelled September 9, 1996). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N8161S: Accident on October 14, 1983 at Aubrey, TX: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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

FTW84FA021Accident on October 14, 1983 at Aubrey, TX: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 28-8016217

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

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW84FA021 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