Piper PA-28-161
N9172Y is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1985. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Mohammadreza Sabzi, a corporation in Los Angeles, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 17, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 9, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8616034
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1985
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- ACB361 (octal 53131541)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 17, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 17, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 9, 1985
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00191646
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mohammadreza Sabzi
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 10535 Wilshire Blvd Ph 1
Los Angeles, CA 90024-6337
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N9172Y, 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 Mohammadreza Sabzi, a corporation, certificate issued February 17, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 9, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8616034 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9172Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31 (serial 31-229, cancelled August 5, 1968). 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 N9172Y: Accident on January 30, 1990 at Broomfield, CO: 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-28-161 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S ENCOUNTER WITH SEVERE TURBULENCE DURING LANDING, AND HIS FAILURE TO DIVERT TO AN ALTERNATE AIRPORT AFTER BECOMING AWARE OF THE WIND CONDITIONS. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE PILOT'S LOW LEVEL OF EXPERIENCE.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data