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.
Where is it now Last seen October 7 at 11:38 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-24-260 · all PA-24-260s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe 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
- 24-4157
- 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 TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 135 mph
- Transponder code
- ABFC73 (octal 52776163)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 10, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 10, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 3, 1965
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00492271
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nelson Aircraft Sales LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 106 37Th St NW
Austin, MN 55912-4809
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 N8710P links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-24 Comanche 2,428 registered
- Piper 44,847 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming TIO-540 series 5,077 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Nelson Aircraft Sales LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to March 20, 2027
- Austin, MN 26 aircraft registered in this town
- Austin Municipal · AUM
- Minnesota 6,933 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-24 Comanche 51 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-24 Comanche 246 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-24 Comanche 484 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming TIO-540 series 41 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming TIO-540 series 363 reports since 1995
- Where N8710P is now · Last seen October 7 at 11:38 am.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data