Piper PA-22-160
N8712D is a Piper PA-22-160, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 26, 2018 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-22-160 · all PA-22-160s and related versions
- Serial number
- 22-5893
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- ABFCAF (octal 52776257)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 26, 2018
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 00942241
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- Individual
- Address
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8712D, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an individual, certificate issued June 26, 2018, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 22-5893 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8712D 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 N8712D: Accident on May 25, 2011 at Yakima, WA: 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-22-160 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control upon landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR11CA235 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data