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Piper PA-28-161: fleet, age & accident history
Aggregate figures from the FAA Aircraft Registry (current US civil registrations) and the NTSB Aviation Accident Database. No individual owners are named on this page.
Accident-rate context
NTSB-recorded events (loaded window) involving aircraft currently registered as this model, per 1,000 currently registered. Not a safety ranking; older events and deregistered aircraft are not counted.
Where Piper PA-28-161 aircraft are registered
Count of currently registered Piper PA-28-161 aircraft by registration state (FAA). Aggregate counts only.
| State | Registered |
|---|---|
| Florida | 249 |
| Texas | 122 |
| California | 118 |
| New York | 72 |
| Delaware | 58 |
| Pennsylvania | 53 |
Piper PA-28-161 airframes with a public accident record
These Piper PA-28-161 aircraft are currently registered and carry at least one NTSB accident or incident record. Marked entries have a record filed under a different tail number — found by manufacturer serial number, which a search on the current N-number alone cannot surface.
- N607PT 1989 · 3 records prior tail number
- N916TT 1989 · 2 records prior tail number
- N970LC 1979 · 2 records prior tail number
- N179SW · 1 record prior tail number
- N235TP 1985 · 1 record prior tail number
- N280PT 1989 · 1 record prior tail number
- N295BC · 1 record prior tail number
- N394DS 1980 · 1 record prior tail number
- N422WG 1980 · 1 record prior tail number
- N515JH · 1 record prior tail number
- N603EA 1978 · 1 record prior tail number
- N623FT 1977 · 1 record prior tail number
- N6789T · 1 record prior tail number
- N748RA 1988 · 1 record prior tail number
- N8142H 1982 · 1 record prior tail number
- N814MS 1983 · 1 record prior tail number
- N8158Z 1980 · 1 record prior tail number
- N886EC 1977 · 1 record prior tail number
- N928TA 1981 · 1 record prior tail number
- N9600U 1978 · 1 record prior tail number
- N978AC 1989 · 1 record prior tail number
- N523PU 1989 · 3 records
- N607FT 1979 · 3 records
- N3079M 1977 · 2 records
- N9855S 2002 · 2 records
- N140ND 1989 · 2 records
- N2366W · 2 records
- N2838D 1979 · 2 records
- N4300S · 2 records
- N4325V 1983 · 2 records
- N4359C · 2 records
- N8115L 1979 · 2 records
- N8445G · 2 records
- N970AC 1980 · 2 records
- N564PU 2002 · 1 record
- N80964 1981 · 1 record
- N81250 1979 · 1 record
- N8149R 1980 · 1 record
- N9221D 1988 · 1 record
- N108ND 1990 · 1 record
- N158ND 1998 · 1 record
- N1660H · 1 record
Other Piper models
- PA-28-140 · 4,262 registered
- PA-28-180 · 3,508 registered
- J3C-65 · 3,185 registered
- PA-28-181 · 2,931 registered
- PA-18-150 · 2,052 registered
- PA-12 · 1,239 registered
- PA-28R-200 · 1,224 registered
- PA-24-250 · 1,222 registered
Was this Piper PA-28-161 ever wrecked under a different tail number?
The free registries search by current tail number — so a Piper PA-28-161 that was wrecked, rebuilt, and re-registered under a new N-number shows clean on every one of them. The accident stays filed under the tail the airframe wore at the time. The $79 report cross-matches by manufacturer serial number to surface that hidden history — plus every registrant on record, registration expiry, recent FAA filings (the lien signal), and the full NTSB narrative for each event. Delivered instantly, no account, no ads.
source: FAA Aircraft Registry source: NTSB FAA data as of 2026-08-17 computed 2026-08-24