Piper PA-28-161
N8461W is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Longview, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 12, 2013 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 13, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8216059
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- AB98B3 (octal 52714263)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 12, 2013
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 13, 1981
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00502941
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hernandez Luis A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5240 Fm 1845
Longview, TX 75604-6881
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N8461W, 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 Hernandez Luis A, an individual, certificate issued September 12, 2013, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 13, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8216059 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8461W 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 N8461W. 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