Piper PA-28-140
N8869N is a Piper PA-28-140, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 15, 2012 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 26, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-140 · all PA-28-140s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-25731
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 107 mph
- Transponder code
- AC37BF (octal 53033677)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 15, 2012
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 26, 1969
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00601841
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Carland Ralph B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 315 Ash St
Altoona, PA 16602-4201
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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 N8869N, 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 Carland Ralph B, an individual, certificate issued August 15, 2012, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 26, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-25731 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8869N 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 N8869N. 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