Piper PA-30
N8797Y is a Piper PA-30, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in North Aurora, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 14, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 25, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-30 · all PA-30s and related versions
- Serial number
- 30-1812
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 139 mph
- Transponder code
- AC1B29 (octal 53015451)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 14, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 14, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 25, 1969
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00292041
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hight Derrick R
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 615 Pinehurst Dr
North Aurora, IL 60542-9017 - Co-owners
- Hight Lauren Renee
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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N8797Y, 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 Hight Derrick R, a co-owned, certificate issued January 14, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 25, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30-1812 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8797Y 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8797Y. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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