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N8966N

Piper PA-32-300

Valid Iowa

N8966N is a Piper PA-32-300, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Cherokee Six LLC, an LLC in Minburn, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 27, 1997 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 24, 1969.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-32-300 · all PA-32-300s and related versions
Serial number
32-40776
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1969
Cruising speed
126 mph
Transponder code
AC5ED5 (octal 53057325)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 27, 1997
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · November 24, 1969
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00581561

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cherokee Six LLC
Type
LLC
Address
21501 H Ave
Minburn, IA 50167-8127

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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 N8966N, 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 Cherokee Six LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 27, 1997, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated November 24, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32-40776 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8966N 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 N8966N. 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