Piper PA-25-235
N8656L is a Piper PA-25-235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Adirondack Soaring Association INC, a corporation in Ballston Spa, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 2012 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated July 11, 1969.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-25-235 · all PA-25-235s 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. A crop sprayer; the fabric covering is easy to repair in the field. This is how the Piper PA-25 Pawnee 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
- 25-5101
- 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 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- ABE49F (octal 52762237)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 31, 2012
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 11, 1969
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00102401
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Adirondack Soaring Association INC (flying club: its whole fleet and safety record)
- 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
- 2017 Barrett Rd
Ballston Spa, NY 12020-2816
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.
Connections how N8656L links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-25 Pawnee 455 registered
- Piper 44,839 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-540 series 5,245 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Adirondack Soaring Association INC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Ballston Spa, NY 48 aircraft registered in this town
- New York 6,658 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-25 Pawnee 24 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-25 Pawnee 67 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-25 Pawnee 188 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-540 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540 series 304 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N8656L, 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 Adirondack Soaring Association INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 31, 2012, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated July 11, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25-5101 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8656L 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 N8656L: Accident on May 26, 2026 at Saratoga Springs, NY: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-25-235 · operated under 091
On May 26, 2026, about 1347 eastern daylight time, a Piper PA-25-235 airplane, N8656L, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Saratoga Springs, New York. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 glider aerotow flight. The airplane was conducting an aerotow of a Schleicher ASW27 glider, N321ER via the glider’s center of gravity tow hook at Saratoga County Airport (5B2), Saratoga Springs, NY. Surveillance video showed that shortly after liftoff, at an altitude of about 200 ft, the glider pitched up and…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data