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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Bac Jet Provost P84 MK 4
N8272Y is a Bac Jet Provost P84 MK 4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1965. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Mantei & Associates, a corporation in Lexington, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 22, 2016 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 18, 1999.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bac Jet Provost
- Model
- P84 MK 4 · all P84 MK 4s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Bac Jet Provost P84 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- XR704
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbojetFAA type of engine code 4 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1965
- Transponder code
- AB4D91 (octal 52646621)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 22, 2016
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 18, 1999
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00765402
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mantei & Associates
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4580 Sunset Blvd
Lexington, SC 29072-9250
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
Connections how N8272Y links to the rest of the register
- Bac Jet Provost P84 13 registered
- Bac Jet Provost 13 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Mantei & Associates 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Lexington, SC 45 aircraft registered in this town
- South Carolina 3,112 aircraft registered
- Where N8272Y is now · Last seen Sunday at 11:06 am.
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The public federal record on N8272Y, 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 Mantei & Associates, a corporation, certificate issued December 22, 2016, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 18, 1999, 34 years after the 1965 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 XR704 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8272Y was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-181 (serial 288190045, cancelled December 9, 1991); Piper PA-30 (serial 30-1401, cancelled March 9, 1967). 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]
3 NTSB records under N8272Y: Accident on September 21, 1991 at Cupertino, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Accident on July 30, 1986 at Monument Valley, UT: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 8, 1983 at Junction, TX: 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 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-181 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN THE PROPER ALTITUDE, HIS IMPROPER INFLIGHT DECISION TO ATTEMPT FLIGHT BELOW THE BASE OF AN OVERCAST LAYER OF CLOUDS TOWARD RISING MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN AND THE FLIGHT'S INADVERTENT ENTRY INTO INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS. FACTORS WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE THE PILOT'S MISJUDGED WEATHER EVALUATION AND HIS IMPROPER VFR PROCEDURES.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-181 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32-301T · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data