Piper PA-24-260
N8710P is a Piper PA-24-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Nelson Aircraft Sales LLC, an LLC in Austin, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 10, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 3, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-24-260 · all PA-24-260s and related versions
- Serial number
- 24-4157
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 135 mph
- Transponder code
- ABFC73 (octal 52776163)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 10, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 10, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 3, 1965
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00492271
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nelson Aircraft Sales LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 106 37Th St NW
Austin, MN 55912-4809
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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 N8710P, 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 Nelson Aircraft Sales LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 10, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 3, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-4157 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8710P 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 N8710P: Accident on May 6, 2001 at Napa, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-24-260 · operated under 091
The pilot-in-command's failure to verify the fuel supply before flight, and his improper fuel management, that resulted in fuel starvation and loss of engine power during takeoff climb resulting in a forced landing and collision with ground obstacles.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX01LA166 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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