Piper PA-28RT-201
N8265S is a Piper PA-28RT-201, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Thunderbird Aircraft CO, a corporation in Bloomington, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 1989 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 9, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28RT-201 · all PA-28RT-201s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28R-8118001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- AB4A3D (octal 52645075)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 16, 1989
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 9, 1980
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00823571
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thunderbird Aircraft CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1600 W 82Nd St Ste 100
Bloomington, MN 55431-1411
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 · 4 clear
The public federal record on N8265S, 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 Thunderbird Aircraft CO, a corporation, certificate issued May 16, 1989, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 9, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28R-8118001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8265S was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Curtiss Wright C-46D (serial 44-77852, cancelled April 26, 1967); Cessna 150F (serial 15061865, cancelled October 4, 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 N8265S. 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