Piper PA-28-140
N85BK is a Piper PA-28-140, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Bkv Aero Squadron LLC, an LLC in New Port Richey, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 18, 2012 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 20, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-140 · all PA-28-140s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7425284
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 107 mph
- Transponder code
- ABA522 (octal 52722442)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 18, 2012
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 20, 1974
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00451594
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bkv Aero Squadron LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4537 Deer Lodge Rd
New Port Richey, FL 34655-7319
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N85BK, 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 Bkv Aero Squadron LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 18, 2012, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 20, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7425284 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N85BK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech B200 (serial BB-734, cancelled December 6, 2005). 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]
1 NTSB record under N85BK: Accident on December 5, 2003 at Morlan, GA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech B200 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate in-flight planning/decision when he continued the flight below the decision height and collided with trees. A related factor was the low ceiling.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL04FA045 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
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