Piper PA-25-235
N8784L is a Piper PA-25-235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Simmons Aviation Services LLC, an LLC in Pawcatuck, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 27, 2009 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 5, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-25-235 · all PA-25-235s and related versions
- Serial number
- 25-5267
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-540-B2C5 · 235 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- AC16FD (octal 53013375)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 27, 2009
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 5, 2012
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00652071
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Simmons Aviation Services LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 353 Greenhaven Rd
Pawcatuck, CT 06379-2093
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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 N8784L, 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 Simmons Aviation Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 27, 2009, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 5, 2012, 42 years after the 1970 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25-5267 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8784L 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 N8784L: Accident on July 21, 1997 at Blackwell, OK: 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-25-235 · operated under 137
partial loss of engine power for undetermined reasons. Factors relating to the accident were: the high vegetation and ditch in the emergency landing area.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW97LA277 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