Piper PA-28-161
N840TC is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2016. It has 4 seats. It is registered to North Star Aviation INC, a corporation in Mankato, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 17, 2016 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 4, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2842416
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-D3G · 160 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2016
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- AB8185 (octal 52700605)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 17, 2016
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- October 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 4, 2016
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01203760
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- North Star Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3030 N Airport Rd
Mankato, MN 56001-7561
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N840TC, 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 North Star Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 17, 2016, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 4, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2842416 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N840TC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Gulfstream Am Corp Comm Div 690C (serial 11688, cancelled September 17, 2015). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N840TC. 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 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