Piper PA-32R-300
N8985C is a Piper PA-32R-300, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 7 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Hamilton, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 1, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 13, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32R-300 · all PA-32R-300s and related versions
- Serial number
- 32R-7680147
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- AC6616 (octal 53063026)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 1, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 13, 1976
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00061521
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cornelius James Sean
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 8860 NE Rufus Dr
Hamilton, MO 64644-8171 - Co-owners
- Warren David E
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8985C, 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 Cornelius James Sean, a co-owned, certificate issued May 1, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 13, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32R-7680147 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8985C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-20S (serial 20-1044, cancelled October 4, 1967). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
1 NTSB record under N8985C: Accident on January 1, 2010 at Concord, NC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32R-300 · operated under 135
A missing right main landing gear aft trunnion mount attachment nut.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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