Piper PA-28-161
N821BE is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Ras Aviation LLC, an LLC in Elyria, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 28, 2020 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 31, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7816398
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- AB34B0 (octal 52632260)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 28, 2020
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 31, 1978
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00920806
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ras Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 44050 Russia Rd
Elyria, OH 44035-6800
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N821BE, 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 Ras Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 28, 2020, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 31, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7816398 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N821BE according to the deregistered file. [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 N821BE: Accident on May 16, 1983 at Robbinsville, NJ: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 4, 1983 at Detroit, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 2
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- 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