Piper PA-24-180
N8304P is a Piper PA-24-180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1963. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Midland, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 29, 2002 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 22, 1963.
Where is it now Last seen October 16 at 4:48 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-24-180 · all PA-24-180s 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 Piper PA-24 Comanche 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
- 24-3556
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 120 mph
- Transponder code
- AB5B4C (octal 52655514)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 29, 2002
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 22, 1963
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00063431
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bourne Robert e Trustee
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 412 Ashman St
Midland, MI 48640-4902
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.
Connections how N8304P links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-24 Comanche 2,428 registered
- Piper 44,844 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360 / VO-360 series 11,930 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Midland, MI 61 aircraft registered in this town
- Jack Barstow Airport · IKW
- Michigan 7,223 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-24 Comanche 51 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-24 Comanche 246 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-24 Comanche 484 supplemental type certificates
- Where N8304P is now · Last seen October 16 at 4:48 pm.
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The public federal record on N8304P, 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 Bourne Robert e Trustee, an individual, certificate issued March 29, 2002, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 22, 1963, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-3556 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8304P 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8304P. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data