Piper PA-39
N8891Y is a Piper PA-39, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Great Plains Aero INC, a corporation in Iowa City, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 26, 1999 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 17, 1970.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-39 · all PA-39s and related versions
- Serial number
- 39-49
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 183 mph
- Transponder code
- AC41D6 (octal 53040726)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 26, 1999
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 17, 1970
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00781761
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Great Plains Aero INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1161 Hampton Ct
Iowa City, IA 52240-2927
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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 N8891Y, 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 Great Plains Aero INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 26, 1999, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 17, 1970, consistent with the 1970 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 39-49 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8891Y 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 N8891Y. 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