Piper PA-32-260
N85CT is a Piper PA-32-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Aerobsession LLC, an LLC in Erie, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 13, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 21, 1966.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32-260 · all PA-32-260s and related versions
- Serial number
- 32-789
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- ABA543 (octal 52722503)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 13, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 21, 1966
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00980394
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aerobsession LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1827 Alpine Dr
Erie, CO 80516-4014
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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 N85CT, 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 Aerobsession LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 13, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 21, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32-789 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N85CT 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 N85CT: Accident on May 22, 2022 at Broomfield, CO: fatal, substantial damage (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: Piper PA-32-260 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to abort the takeoff due to degraded engine performance. Contributing to the accident was the reduced performance of the engine, the reason for which could not be determined.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22FA208 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