Piper PA-28-181
N1601S is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Joshua, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 7, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7790057
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A0F43A (octal 50172072)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 18, 2021
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). 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 7, 1976
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00431930
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Russell Bryan E
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- PO Box 332
Joshua, TX 76058-0332
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N1601S, 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 Russell Bryan E, an individual, certificate issued March 18, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7790057 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1601S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Snow S2C (serial 1139-C, cancelled September 10, 1964). 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 N1601S: Accident on June 11, 1985 at Tahlequah, OK: 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-28-181 · operated under 091
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