{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2005-01-05","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"FARMINGDALE","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","cruise_speed_mph":108,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41508","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-08-07","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102803","mode_s_code":"50722256","mode_s_hex":"A3A4AE","model":"PA-28-161","n_number":"N334AC","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Charleston","damage":"SUBS","date":"2017-05-05","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"DCA17FA109","probable_cause":"the flight crew's improper decision to conduct a circling approach contrary to the operator's standard operating procedures (SOP) and the captain's excessive descent rate and maneuvering during the approach, which led to inadvertent, uncontrolled contact with the ground. Contributing to the accident was the operator's lack of a formal safety and oversight program to assess hazards and compliance with SOPs and to monitor pilots with previous performance issues.","registration":"N334AC","state":"WV","summary":"Accident on May 5, 2017 at Charleston, WV: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N334AC is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Farmingdale, New York. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending\". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 5, 2005.","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 5, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2842219 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N334AC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Short Bros. & Harland SD3-30 (serial SH3029, cancelled May 10, 2018). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N334AC: Accident on May 5, 2017 at Charleston, WV: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"2842219","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NY","status":"Registration pending","status_code":"R","status_short":"Pending","street":"9100 REPUBLIC AIRPORT STE 106","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00115529","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N334AC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2005,"zip":"117353971"}