The U.S. aircraft register, updated daily · Carbon Free Flight by 2050
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 2, 2026
N8897N

Piper PA-28-140

Valid Texas

N8897N 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 co-owned owners in San Angelo, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 27, 2012 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 8, 1969.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-140 · all PA-28-140s and related versions
Serial number
28-25761
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
AC429E (octal 53041236)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 27, 2012
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · April 8, 1969
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00031751

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Anderson Leroy H
Type
Co-owned
Address
618 Powell St
San Angelo, TX 76903-7123
Co-owners
Anderson Marie

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 N8897N, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Anderson Leroy H, a co-owned, certificate issued August 27, 2012, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 8, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-25761 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8897N according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8897N. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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