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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-25-235 · all PA-25-235s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. A crop sprayer; the fabric covering is easy to repair in the field. This is how the Piper PA-25 Pawnee 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
- 25-5267
- 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 O-540-B2C5 · 235 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgasUnleaded: mogas under STC SA1932CE and STC SA1933CE and STC SE01943CH (Petersen Aviation INC) · the owner buys the certificate and checks its approved model list for this exact model and engine
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- AC16FD (octal 53013375)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 27, 2009
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- 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 · June 5, 2012
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00652071
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Simmons Aviation Services 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
- 353 Greenhaven Rd
Pawcatuck, CT 06379-2093
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 N8784L links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-25 Pawnee 455 registered
- Piper 44,840 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-540-B2C5 13 aircraft with this engine series · 235 hp
- Simmons Aviation Services LLC 28 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to February 10, 2027
- Pawcatuck, CT 35 aircraft registered in this town
- Connecticut 1,612 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-25 Pawnee 24 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-25 Pawnee 67 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-25 Pawnee 188 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-540-B2C5 22 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540-B2C5 16 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N8784L.json.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data