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N9218W

Piper PA-28-235

Valid Arizona

N9218W is a Piper PA-28-235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Tucson, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 17, 1967. 2 documents are on file: court documents, bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-235 · all PA-28-235s and related versions
Serial number
28-10883
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1967
Cruising speed
107 mph
Transponder code
ACC566 (octal 53142546)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 7, 2022
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · March 17, 1967
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00610801

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ritcheson Mark F
Type
Individual
Address
3661 N Campbell Ave # 410
Tucson, AZ 85719-1527

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 2

2026-09-17Court documents
2026-09-17Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N9218W, 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 Ritcheson Mark F, an individual, certificate issued September 7, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated March 17, 1967, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-10883 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N9218W according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

2 documents received recently: Court documents (September 17, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 17, 2026). [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N9218W: Accident on August 5, 1996 at Truckee, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

LAX96LA297Accident on August 5, 1996 at Truckee, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-235 · operated under 091

The pilot's failure to properly compensate for a crosswind component during the go-around in a high density altitude environment that led to a loss of aircraft control..

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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