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N8265S

Piper PA-28RT-201

Valid Minnesota

N8265S is a Piper PA-28RT-201, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Thunderbird Aircraft CO, a corporation in Bloomington, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 1989 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 9, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28RT-201
Serial number
28R-8118001
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1980
Transponder code
AB4A3D (octal 52645075)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 16, 1989
Expires
May 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · September 9, 1980
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00823571

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Thunderbird Aircraft CO
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 2

1967-04-26Curtiss Wright C-46D · exported to China Peoples Rep · Valid registration
1965-10-04Cessna 150F · exported to United Kingdom · Valid registration

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