Piper PA-28-235
N8840W is a Piper PA-28-235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bend, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 12, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 21, 1964.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-235 · all PA-28-235s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-10389
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 107 mph
- Transponder code
- AC2F1E (octal 53027436)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 12, 2021
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 21, 1964
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00401911
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lee Ronald A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 61145 Brosterhous Rd
Bend, OR 97702-9735
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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 N8840W, 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 Lee Ronald A, an individual, certificate issued June 12, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 21, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-10389 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8840W 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 N8840W: Accident on March 20, 1992 at Havasu Lake, CA: 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 PA28-235 · operated under 091
THE DUAL STUDENT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL, THE CFI'S IMPROPER SUPERVISION OF THE FLIGHT, AND THE CFI'S FAILURE TO PERFORM THE NECESSARY REMEDIAL ACTION. CONTRIBUTING TO THIS ACCIDENT WAS THE DUAL STUDENT'S IMPROPER USE OF THE BRAKES.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX92LA144 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