Piper PA-28-161
N8288Z 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 co-owned owners in Granada Hills, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 2016 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 22, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8116071
- 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
- AB521B (octal 52651033)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 31, 2016
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 22, 1980
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00273491
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pabon Hugo
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 17820 Donmetz St
Granada Hills, CA 91344-4012 - Co-owners
- Pabon Eduardo
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8288Z, 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 Pabon Hugo, a co-owned, certificate issued August 31, 2016, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 22, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8116071 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8288Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 210-5(205) (serial 2050288, cancelled October 29, 1963). 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]
1 NTSB record under N8288Z: Accident on August 24, 1987 at Merrill Pass, AK: 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 PA-18 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC87LA127 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
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