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N8068C

Piper PA-28-161

Valid Minnesota

N8068C is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Thunderbird Aircraft Company, a corporation in Bloomington, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 9, 1983 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 22, 1981.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-161
Serial number
28-8216099
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1981
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
AAFB9A (octal 52575632)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 9, 1983
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · December 22, 1981
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00480552

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Thunderbird Aircraft Company
Type
Corporation
Address
1600 W 82Nd St Ste 100
Bloomington, MN 55431-1411

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1958-07-11Piper PA-18-135 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

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