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N9891W

Piper PA-28-235

Pending Utah

N9891W is a Piper PA-28-235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Orem, Utah. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-235 · all PA-28-235s and related versions
Serial number
28-10698
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
107 mph
Transponder code
ADCF23 (octal 53347443)

Registration

Status
Registration pending
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
February 27, 2026
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00371171

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Registration Pending
Type
Individual
Address
1667 Mountain Oaks Dr
Orem, UT 84097-2309

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 1

2026-09-09Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Earlier use of this number 1

—Piper PA-28-140 · B

Records check free · 4 to understand · 1 clear

The public federal record on N9891W, 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.

ATTENTIONRegistration and identity

Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-10698 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9891W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 2823411, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 9, 2026). [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N9891W: Accident on July 12, 1982 at Wasilla, AK: minor 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

ANC82DAG35Accident on July 12, 1982 at Wasilla, AK: minor injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 28-23411

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-140 · operated under 091

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 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