Piper PA-24-260
N8972P is a Piper PA-24-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rex, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 19, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 14, 1966. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-24-260 · all PA-24-260s and related versions
- Serial number
- 24-4429
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 135 mph
- Transponder code
- AC6201 (octal 53061001)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 19, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 14, 1966
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00191551
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Melson Rudy P Trustee
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3924 Augustine Pl
Rex, GA 30273-5825
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 1
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The public federal record on N8972P, 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 Melson Rudy P Trustee, an individual, certificate issued May 19, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 14, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-4429 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8972P according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 21, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8972P. 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