Piper PA-28-235
N15442 is a Piper PA-28-235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Au Gres, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 15, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 3, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-235 · all PA-28-235s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7310046
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 107 mph
- Transponder code
- A0DC0A (octal 50156012)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 15, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 3, 1972
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00161880
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Buchanan Ethan D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 968 Shady Ln
Au Gres, MI 48703-9782
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N15442, 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 Buchanan Ethan D, an individual, certificate issued June 15, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 3, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7310046 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N15442 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Porterfield 35-70 (serial 142, cancelled October 22, 1951). 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]
1 NTSB record under N15442: Accident on July 28, 2002 at Kelleys Island, OH: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-235 · operated under 091
The pilot-in-command's failure to obtain a proper touchdown point. A factor was the downdraft.
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