Piper PA-32R-301
N8473C is a Piper PA-32R-301, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 7 seats. It is registered to R K Air LTD, a corporation in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 2, 1992 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 23, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32R-301 · all PA-32R-301s and related versions
- Serial number
- 32R-8213014
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- AB9C9E (octal 52716236)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 2, 1992
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 23, 1981
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00402911
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- R K Air LTD
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2293 Forest Ln
Harrisburg, PA 17112-1008
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 N8473C, 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 R K Air LTD, a corporation, certificate issued June 2, 1992, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 23, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32R-8213014 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8473C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aero Commander 500 (serial 500-801, cancelled April 30, 1971). 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 N8473C. 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