Piper PA-42-720
N9159Y is a Piper PA-42-720, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1985. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Southern Arkansas University Tech, a government body in Camden, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2004 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated November 29, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-42-720 · all PA-42-720s and related versions
- Serial number
- 42-5501028
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6A-60A · 1050 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- ACACE8 (octal 53126350)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 30, 2004
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development · November 29, 1985
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00031667
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southern Arkansas University Tech
- Type
- Government
- Address
- PO Box 3499
Camden, AR 71711-1599
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N9159Y, 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 Southern Arkansas University Tech, a government body, certificate issued July 30, 2004, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development, dated November 29, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42-5501028 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9159Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31 (serial 31-208, cancelled February 18, 1971). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9159Y. 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