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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-25-235 · all PA-25-235s and related versions
- Serial number
- 25-5101
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- ABE49F (octal 52762237)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 31, 2012
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · July 11, 1969
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00102401
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Adirondack Soaring Association INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2017 Barrett Rd
Ballston Spa, NY 12020-2816
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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 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…
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- 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