N84493

Piper PA-28-161

Registrations are reused: the FAA register shows one earlier aircraft with this mark, the last registration cancelled on September 16, 1970.

Register facts: FAA Aircraft Registry (Releasable Aircraft Database) (open data).

FlightFinder has no observed route profile for this registration. The documented safety events below are available independently of live flight tracking.

Safety history

  • July 11, 1988Accident

    ACCORDING TO WITNESSES, THE PILOT HAD BEEN DRINKING AND TWO FRIENDS DROVE HIM TO THE AIRPORT AND WATCHED AS HE DEPARTED. THEY NOTED THAT THE AIRCRAFT WAS CLIMBING STEEPLY AFTER LIFTOFF AND THEN OBSERVED THE AIRCRAFT'S ROTATING BEACON AS THE AIRCRAFT SPIRALED TO THE GROUND.

    Piper PA-28-161