Piper PA-32R-301T
N8197W is a Piper PA-32R-301T, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 7 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rifle, Colorado. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 17, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32R-301T · all PA-32R-301Ts and related versions
- Serial number
- 32R-8029050
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- AB2E2D (octal 52627055)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 17, 1980
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00790022
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3801 County Road 233
Rifle, CO 81650-8742
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8197W, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 17, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32R-8029050 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8197W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 28-2325, cancelled July 28, 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]
2 NTSB records under N8197W: Accident on May 19, 2013 at Chandler, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 12, 2000 at Wauseon, OH: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32R-301T · operated under 091
The failure of the alternator and/or battery, which prevented the operation of the landing gear extension system and resulted in the nose landing gear collapsing during the landing roll.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR13LA237 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32R-301T · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed, which resulted in an inadvertent stall.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC00LA158 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