Piper PA-25-235
N8730L 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 2 Broke Pilots LLC, an LLC in Foley, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 17, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial advertising, dated April 10, 1970.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-25-235 · all PA-25-235s and related versions
- Serial number
- 25-5191
- 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
- AC03DE (octal 53001736)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 17, 2021
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control; Aerial advertising · April 10, 1970
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00822231
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- 2 Broke Pilots LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 8927 Turf Creek Dr
Foley, AL 36535-9214
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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 N8730L, 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 2 Broke Pilots LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 17, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; aerial advertising, dated April 10, 1970, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25-5191 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8730L 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 N8730L: Accident on July 3, 2014 at Rhinelander, WI: minor 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 25-235 · operated under 137
A loss of engine power due to the pilot's improper inflight planning and reliance of fuel gauge readings, which resulted in fuel exhaustion.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN14CA344 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