Piper PA-28-235
N8977W is a Piper PA-28-235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Black Hawk, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 24, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-235 · all PA-28-235s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-10555
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 107 mph
- Transponder code
- AC62B7 (octal 53061267)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 11, 2018
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- January 3, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 24, 1965
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00311541
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rice Elden
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 6350 Chantel Cir
Black Hawk, SD 57718-9349 - Co-owners
- Rice Katherine
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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 N8977W, 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 Rice Elden, a co-owned, certificate issued July 11, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 24, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-10555 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8977W 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 N8977W. 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