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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N8624P

Piper PA-24-400

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNevada

N8624P is a Piper PA-24-400, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Aviation Classics LTD, a corporation in Reno, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 7, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 25, 1965.

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-24-400 · all PA-24-400s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-24 Comanche family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
26-146
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-720 · 400 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1965
Cruising speed
157 mph
Transponder code
ABD937 (octal 52754467)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
October 7, 2025
Expires
October 31, 2032
Last FAA action
October 7, 2025
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · June 25, 1965
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00872461

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Aviation Classics LTD
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
4825 Texas Ave
Reno, NV 89506-1237

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N8624P links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N8624P, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Aviation Classics LTD, a corporation, certificate issued October 7, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated June 25, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26-146 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8624P according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8624P. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data