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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N128AV

Piper PA-28

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesOhio

N128AV is a Piper PA-28, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Macair Aviation LLC, an LLC in Xenia, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 27, 2013 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 25, 1984.

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28 · all PA-28s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
28-8516007
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1984
Cruising speed
107 mph
Transponder code
A0717E (octal 50070576)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 27, 2013
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 25, 1984
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00651544

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Macair Aviation LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
140 N Valley Rd
Xenia, OH 45385-9301
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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N128AV links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Xenia, OH 106 aircraft registered in this town
  • Ohio 8,533 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N128AV.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N128AV, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Macair Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 27, 2013, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 25, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8516007 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N128AV according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N128AV. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data