Piper PA-24-260
N8606P is a Piper PA-24-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mitchell, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 20, 1990 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 3, 1964.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-24-260 · all PA-24-260s and related versions
- Serial number
- 24-4061
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 135 mph
- Transponder code
- ABD20F (octal 52751017)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 20, 1990
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 3, 1964
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00222531
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Buhler Carey C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 600 Greenridge Lane
Mitchell, SD 57301
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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 N8606P, 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 Buhler Carey C, an individual, certificate issued December 20, 1990, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 3, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-4061 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8606P 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 N8606P: Accident on July 16, 2026 at Baraboo, WI: serious 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 PA24 · operated under 091
On July 16, 2026, about 1508 central daylight time, a Piper PA-24-260 airplane, N8606P, sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident near Baraboo, Wisconsin. The pilot sustained serious injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot reported that for the cross-country flight, the airplane had about 6.5 hours of fuel onboard, and the planned flight only required about 2.5 hours of fuel. A preliminary review of ADS-B data showed the airplane depart, about 1232, from the Mitchell Municipal Airport (MHE), Mitchel…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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