{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1980-01-23","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2013-11-19","city":"TAMPA","country_code":"US","county_code":"057","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41532","engine_horsepower":250,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-540 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-15","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102815","mode_s_code":"52621067","mode_s_hex":"AB2237","model":"PA-28-236","n_number":"N8161X","name":"LITTLE BLUEBIRD LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Punta Gorda","damage":"SUBS","date":"2016-06-17","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA16LA225","probable_cause":"The tower controller\u2019s failure to identify and mitigate jet blast from an airplane conducting an engine test run, and the effect of the jet blast on landing traffic, which resulted in a runway excursion when a landing airplane encountered the blast. Contributing to the accident was the lack of procedures for positioning high-powered airplanes conducting engine test runs in the airport movement area.","registration":"N8161X","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on June 17, 2016 at Punta Gorda, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N8161X is a Piper PA-28-236, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Little Bluebird LLC, an LLC in Tampa, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 19, 2013 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 23, 1980.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Little Bluebird LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 19, 2013, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated January 23, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8011076 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N8161X according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N8161X: Accident on June 17, 2016 at Punta Gorda, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"28-8011076","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"4701 W SAN CARLOS ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00830092","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N8161X","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1980,"zip":"336296401"}