Piper PA-28-151
N8479F is a Piper PA-28-151, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Dubois County Airport Authority, a government body in Huntingburg, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 2013 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 7, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-151 · all PA-28-151s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7715270
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 80 mph
- Transponder code
- AB9D73 (octal 52716563)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 1, 2013
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 7, 1976
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00232901
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dubois County Airport Authority
- Type
- Government
- Address
- PO Box 293
Huntingburg, IN 47542-0293
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N8479F, 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 Dubois County Airport Authority, a government body, certificate issued July 1, 2013, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 7, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7715270 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8479F 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]
1 NTSB record under N8479F: Accident on August 23, 1991 at Freeburg, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-151 · operated under 091
IMPROPER USE OF THE MIXTURE CONTROL BY THE PIC/CFI. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS INADEQUATE FRICTION ON THE MIXTURE CONTROL LEVER.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI91LA272 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data