Piper PA-28RT-201 — registry & accident history
Compiled from FAA & NTSB records · as of Jul 25, 2026
There are 405 Piper PA-28RT-201 airframes on record (built 1978–1987), 179 currently registered. 16 have one or more NTSB accident records (16 records total, 4 with a fatal highest-injury classification). Data as of Jul 25, 2026.
Recent Piper PA-28RT-201 accidents
The pilot’s failure to maintain a proper descent rate during the final approach, resulting in a hard landing and collision with a runway edge light.
The partial retraction of the right main and nose landing gear during landing rollout for undetermined reasons.
The pilot’s inability to see and avoid a bird while landing in dark night conditions.
Maintenance personnel’s failure to follow the avionics installation guidance for the oil pressure sensor, which resulted in the high-cycle fatigue failure of an line, oil starvation, and the subsequent loss of engine power. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s failure to perform an adequate preflight inspection of the airplane.
The pilot's improper decision to continue a takeoff with a partial loss of engine power that occurred early in the takeoff roll. The reason for the partial loss of engine power could not be determined because postaccident fire damage to the engine precluded an examination.
The private pilot's exceedance of the airplane's critical angle-of-attack during a go-around in gusting crosswind conditions, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and a collision with terrain short of the runway.
Maintenance personnel’s inadequate fuel injection servo maintenance due to an out-of-date AD list, which resulted in the fuel injection servo plug backing out of the threaded plug hole on the regulator cover of the fuel injection servo and subsequent total loss of engine power.