Piper PA-28-140
N8432C is a Piper PA-28-140, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Empire Aviation, a corporation in Oxford, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 17, 2007 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 22, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-140 · all PA-28-140s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7625117
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 107 mph
- Transponder code
- AB8D9F (octal 52706637)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 17, 2007
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 22, 1976
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00153091
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Empire Aviation
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 418 Raleigh St
Oxford, NC 27565-3734
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 N8432C, 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 Empire Aviation, a corporation, certificate issued April 17, 2007, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 22, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7625117 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8432C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aero Commander 680-E (serial 680E-785-51, cancelled November 17, 1960). 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 N8432C. 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