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PA-16 — Piper Aircraft PA-16

Piper Aircraft PA-16
PA16
Photo via Wikipedia: Piper PA-16 Clipper
Year
Owner
Piper Aircraft
Last seen
MTOW
700 kg
Range
260 nm
Seats
4
PA-16hover
Piper Aircraft · PA-16
Model overview

Fleet & certification

Built
333
Active
298
Origin
US
Certifying authorities
FAA
Variants

Per-variant specifications

VariantEngineMTOWRangeCruisePax
PA16
PA16
700 kg260 nm97 kt4
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Type certification

The FAA paperwork

TCDS 1A1 · 13 · issued 2006-08-07

The FAA-issued Type Certificate for this model is on file (TCDS 1A1), but we haven't yet extracted the structured spec values.

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Safety & ops history

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Detailed safety & ops history coming soon — view this model's FAA Airworthiness Directives at FAA.gov.
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Piper Aircraft PA-16market & fleet intelligence

Registry, flight-tracking and market data on the Piper Aircraft PA-16 fleet — updated daily.

Fleet age

77 yearsmedian age

Of the 245 registered Piper Aircraft PA-16 with a known build year (74% of the 333 we track), the median age is 77 years.

Registration activity

19changed registration in 12 months

19 of the 333 registered Piper Aircraft PA-16 we track changed registration in the last 12 months (6% of the fleet), across 19 registration events. Registration changes include ownership transfers, re-registrations and address updates — not all are sales.

Fleet activity — last 90 days
Aircraft seen flying
4
Tracked flights
7
Tracked flight hours
15
Share of fleet flying
1%

4 Piper Aircraft PA-16 were tracked flying in the last 90 days (1% of the registered fleet), across 7 flights. Sprinkle flight tracking began May 2026; coverage is ADS-B-derived and not exhaustive.

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