Piper PA-28-161
N9855S is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Ari Ben Aviatior INC, a corporation in Fort Pierce, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2012 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 22, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2842151
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2002
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- ADC0CF (octal 53340317)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 14, 2012
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 22, 2002
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00574077
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ari Ben Aviatior INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3800 Saint Lucie Blvd
Fort Pierce, FL 34946-9022
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N9855S, 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 Ari Ben Aviatior INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 14, 2012, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 22, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2842151 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9855S according to the deregistered file. [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 N9855S: Accident on August 17, 2023 at Fort Pierce, FL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Accident on September 4, 2002 at Graham, TX: 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: Piper PA-28-161 · operated under 091
The left seat instructor’s intentional maneuvering of the airplane in an aerobatic steep turn for which it was not approved, which resulted in an exceedance of the structural limitations of the airplane and an inflight breakup.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-161 · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to attain the proper touchdown point which resulted in a runway overrun.
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