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N5985W

Piper PA-28-140

Reports overdue Delaware

N5985W is a Piper PA-28-140, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sterling West CORP, a non-citizen corporation in Camden, Delaware. The FAA lists the registration as "non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports" (certificate issued October 31, 2024). It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 25, 1979.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-140
Serial number
28-25765
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1969
Cruising speed
107 mph
Transponder code
A7BE3B (octal 51737073)

Registration

Status
Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports
Certificate issued
October 31, 2024
Expires
October 31, 2031
Last FAA action
July 31, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · July 25, 1979
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00132065

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sterling West CORP
Type
Non-citizen corporation
Address
2140 S Dupont Hwy
Camden, DE 19934-1249

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.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data