Piper PA-20-135
N8290C is a Piper PA-20-135, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hamersville, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 19, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 22, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-20-135 · all PA-20-135s and related versions
- Serial number
- 20-1119
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1954
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- AB54A5 (octal 52652245)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 19, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 19, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 22, 1957
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00323481
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mckinney Steve R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1951 State Route 125
Hamersville, OH 45130-9501
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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 N8290C, 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 Mckinney Steve R, an individual, certificate issued September 19, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 22, 1957, 3 years after the 1954 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 20-1119 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8290C 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 N8290C: Accident on May 2, 2024 at Georgetown, OH: minor 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-20-135 · operated under 091
An inadvertent encounter with the rotor wash of a nearby hovering helicopter during landing, which resulted in a loss of control and a runway excursion.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA24LA212 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