Piper PA-28-181
N132BC is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Universidad Interamericana De Puerto Rico, a corporation in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 4, 2003 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 20, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2843583
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2003
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A082BB (octal 50101273)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 4, 2003
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 20, 2003
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00070909
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Universidad Interamericana De Puerto Rico
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 500 Dr John Will Harris Rd
Bayamon, PR 00957-6257 - Co-owners
- School Of Aeronautics
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N132BC, 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.
Valid registration to Universidad Interamericana De Puerto Rico, a corporation, certificate issued December 4, 2003, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 20, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2843583 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N132BC was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Coats Christopher V CHALLENGER II (serial CH201971547, cancelled August 5, 2000); Cessna 320D (serial 320D0130, cancelled April 29, 1992); Cessna 185 (serial 185-0176, cancelled March 16, 1962). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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]
2 NTSB records under N132BC: Accident on January 17, 1998 at Evergreen, AL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 1, 1989 at Wixom, MI: minor injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Christopher Coats CHALLENGER II · operated under 091
The undetermined failure of the propeller bolts that resulted in the inflight separation of the propeller assembly. A factor was the overpass bridge.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 320D · operated under 091
PILOT'S INATTENTION TO THE FUEL SYSTEM DURING PREFLIGHT AND INADEQUATE FUEL SYSTEM MONITORING THROUGHOUT THE FLIGHT.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data