Piper PA-20-135
N8629C is a Piper PA-20-135, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kempner, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 6, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 11, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-20-135 · all PA-20-135s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Piper PA-20 Pacer 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
- 20-1007
- 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 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1953
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- ABD9DB (octal 52754733)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 6, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 6, 2024
- 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 · February 11, 1956
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00972461
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Kevin B
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1459 County Road 3152
Kempner, TX 76539-8731
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N8629C links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-20 Pacer 323 registered
- Piper 44,837 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-290 series 2,126 aircraft with this engine series · 140 hp
- Kempner, TX 12 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,956 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-20 Pacer 26 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-20 Pacer 11 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-20 Pacer 316 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-290 series 7 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N8629C, 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 Smith Kevin B, an individual, certificate issued May 6, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 11, 1956, 3 years after the 1953 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20-1007 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8629C 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8629C. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data