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N8301F

Piper PA-32-301

Valid Michigan

N8301F is a Piper PA-32-301, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 7 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Presque Isle, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 26, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 4, 1982.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-32-301 · all PA-32-301s and related versions
Serial number
32-8306004
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
Seats
7
Year built
1982
Transponder code
AB5ADB (octal 52655333)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 26, 2023
Expires
July 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 4, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · November 4, 1982
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00730282

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sorensen Daryl
Type
Co-owned
Address
14895 US Highway 23 S
Presque Isle, MI 49777-9008
Co-owners
Sorensen Karen

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8301F, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Sorensen Daryl, a co-owned, certificate issued July 26, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated November 4, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32-8306004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8301F according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N8301F: Accident on July 15, 1989 at Grayslake, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

CHI89LA139Accident on July 15, 1989 at Grayslake, IL: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32-301 · operated under 091

THE PILOT'S IMPROPER FLARE AND RECOVERY FROM A BOUNCED LANDING, AND HIS FAILURE TO GO AROUND (WHEN THERE WAS SUFFICIENT SPEED AND RUNWAY REMAINING). A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR WAS HIS LACK OF RECENT EXPERIENCE IN TYPE OF AIRCRAFT.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI89LA139 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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