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N9028P

Piper PA-24-260

Valid Texas

N9028P 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 co-owned owners in China Spring, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 3, 1966.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-24-260 · all PA-24-260s and related versions
Serial number
24-4490
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
AC7A18 (octal 53075030)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 28, 2026
Expires
March 31, 2033
Last FAA action
March 28, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · June 3, 1966
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00173257

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bray Nick R Trustee
Type
Co-owned
Address
273 Comanche Trl
China Spring, TX 76633-2833
Co-owners
Bray Sylvia A Trustee

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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 N9028P, 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 Bray Nick R Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued March 28, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated June 3, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-4490 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N9028P 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 N9028P. 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 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