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N81669

Piper PA-28-161

N81669 is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hillsborough, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 16, 2009 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 5, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
Serial number
28-8016215
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1980
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
AB22F2 (octal 52621362)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 16, 2009
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · February 5, 1980
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00230102

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Esteves Anthony
Type
Individual
Address
59 Taurus Dr Unit 4A
Hillsborough, NJ 08844-5072

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

1965-05-21Aeronca 7AC · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N81669, 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 Esteves Anthony, an individual, certificate issued March 16, 2009, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 5, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8016215 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N81669 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-285, cancelled May 21, 1965). 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 N81669. 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