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N8078J

Pinckney Leith A ULTRALIGHT

Valid Tennessee

N8078J is a Pinckney Leith A ULTRALIGHT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Decatur, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 26, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated December 16, 2007.

Aircraft

Maker
Pinckney Leith A
Model
ULTRALIGHT
Serial number
001
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503ULDCDI · 52 hp
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AAFF57 (octal 52577527)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 26, 2024
Expires
July 31, 2031
Last FAA action
July 26, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · December 16, 2007
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00236809

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Buchanan Patrick C
Type
Individual
Address
593 Ridge Rd
Decatur, TN 37322-7047

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

1983-02-02Piper AEROSTAR 601P · Administratively canceled

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