Piper PA-28-151
N96VA is a Piper PA-28-151, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Jak Real Estate LLC, an LLC in Gorham, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 21, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 21, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-151 · all PA-28-151s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7415052
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 80 mph
- Transponder code
- AD5BA9 (octal 53255651)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 21, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 21, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 21, 1973
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00943115
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jak Real Estate LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 9 Hope Dr
Gorham, ME 04038-2663
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 N96VA, 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 Jak Real Estate LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 21, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 21, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7415052 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N96VA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Vans Aircraft Inc RV-6T (serial 2, cancelled August 25, 2000). 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]
2 NTSB records under N96VA: Accident on April 2, 2000 at Pettigrew, AR: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Accident on October 7, 1995 at North Plains, OR: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Vans Aircraft RV-6T · operated under 091
the pilot's continued flight into known adverse weather and his failure to maintain obstacle clearance. Contributing factors were adverse weather conditions, and the pilot's disregard for the forecasted adverse weather.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Vans RV-6T · operated under 091
Fuel starvation due to the failure of the left tank fuel quantity sending unit which resulted in a false indication of fuel quantity. A factor was the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
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