Piper PA-25
N8186K is a Piper PA-25, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Black Hills Soaring Club INC, a corporation in Rapid City, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 11, 2014 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial advertising, dated March 7, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-25 · all PA-25s and related versions
- Serial number
- 25163
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 81 mph
- Transponder code
- AB2A48 (octal 52625110)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 11, 2014
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Aerial advertising · March 7, 2000
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00451256
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Black Hills Soaring Club INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2310 Arroyo Ct
Rapid City, SD 57702-5112
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 3
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8186K, 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 Black Hills Soaring Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 11, 2014, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 7, 2000, 40 years after the 1960 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25163 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8186K was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Keller Gerald D J-3 KITTEN (serial 543, cancelled July 27, 1995); Gulfstream-Schweizer A/C Corp GULFSTREAM AM G-164B (serial 605B, cancelled November 17, 1982); Stinson 108-1 (serial 108-1186, cancelled October 11, 1956). 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 N8186K: Accident on July 12, 2025 at Hot Springs, SD: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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-25 · operated under 091
On July 12, 2025, about 1322 mountain daylight time, a Piper PA-25, N8186K, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Hot Springs, South Dakota. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 glider aerotow flight. The pilot of the glider being aerotowed reported that the accident occurred during his fourth flight of the day and a pre-takeoff briefing was performed before each aerotow. The glider pilot stated that on the accident flight, after liftoff, he kept the glider in a standard tow position while he co…
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25FA248 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data