Piper PA-24-260
N8747P is a Piper PA-24-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 24, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-24-260 · all PA-24-260s and related versions
- Serial number
- 24-4200
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 135 mph
- Transponder code
- AC088D (octal 53004215)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 24, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 24, 1965
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00272181
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Edens Kenneth L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 334 Regency Ter
Hot Springs, AR 71913-9083
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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 N8747P, 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 Edens Kenneth L, an individual, certificate issued February 24, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-4200 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8747P 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 N8747P: Accident on August 1, 1992 at Hot Springs, AR: 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 PARTIAL LOSS OF ENGINE POWER DUE TO UNDETERMINED REASONS. A FACTOR WAS THE UNSUITABLE TERRAIN.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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