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N8162S1980 Piper PA-28RT-201

Deregistered

Checked against FAA & NTSB records · as of Jul 23, 2026

N8162S appears in 1 NTSB accident record (most recent 2015, minor injuries). Registration and accident data compiled from public FAA and NTSB records as of Jul 23, 2026.

Aircraft record

Serial number
28R-8018042
Manufacturer
Piper
Year
1980
Category
Fixed wing single-engine
Engine
Lycoming I0360 Ser A&c
Registration
Deregistered

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Accident & incident history

  1. ERA15LA341Sep 4, 2015Russell Springs, KYMinor

    Maintenance personnel’s inadequate fuel injection servo maintenance due to an out-of-date AD list, which resulted in the fuel injection servo plug backing out of the threaded plug hole on the regulator cover of the fuel injection servo and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.

Registration timeline

Ownership and registration events for this airframe (the 1980 Piper PA-28RT-201).

  1. May 31, 2018deregisteredSale Reported

Earlier aircraft on this N-number

The tail number N8162S was previously assigned to a different aircraft. A registration number can be reused across unrelated airframes over decades — these are not the 1980 Piper PA-28RT-201 above.

Frequently asked

Has N8162S been in an accident?
Yes. N8162S appears in 1 NTSB accident record, the most recent in 2015.
What kind of aircraft is N8162S?
N8162S is a 1980 Piper PA-28RT-201 (fixed wing single-engine), serial number 28R-8018042.

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