Piper PA-28-161
N8282V is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Ensemble Air LLC, an LLC in Laramie, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 10, 2012 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 10, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8116060
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- AB5145 (octal 52650505)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 10, 2012
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 10, 1980
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00283561
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ensemble Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 1436
Laramie, WY 82073-1436
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N8282V, 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 Ensemble Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 10, 2012, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 10, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8116060 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8282V 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]
1 NTSB record under N8282V: Accident on April 7, 2025 at Ault, CO: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA28 · operated under 091
The flight instructor’s failure to maintain terrain clearance during an attempted go-around, which resulted in a collision with a fence post.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA146 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
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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