Piper PA-28-161
N8251S is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Airlife Aviation LLC, an LLC in Elkridge, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 12, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 29, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8316081
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- AB45FA (octal 52642772)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 12, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 12, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 29, 1983
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00252642
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Airlife Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5917 Spring Leaf Ct
Elkridge, MD 21075-5996
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8251S, 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 Airlife Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 12, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8316081 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8251S was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28RT-201T (serial 28R-8031163, cancelled October 2, 1980); Cessna 150F (serial 15061851, cancelled September 7, 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8251S. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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