Piper PA-28-140
N971C is a Piper PA-28-140, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Carol CORP, a corporation in Lincoln, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 1997 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 8, 1964.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-140 · all PA-28-140s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-20093
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 107 mph
- Transponder code
- AD878E (octal 53303616)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 8, 1997
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 8, 1964
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00401116
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Carol CORP
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 4055 N Park Rd
Lincoln, NE 68524-1897
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 N971C, 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 Carol CORP, a corporation, certificate issued May 8, 1997, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 8, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-20093 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N971C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson 108-3 (serial 108-3971, cancelled June 26, 1970). 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 N971C. 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