Piper PA-28-180
N16305 is a Piper PA-28-180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-180 · all PA-28-180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7305221
- 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
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 107 mph
- Transponder code
- A0FF49 (octal 50177511)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 24, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00400210
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fross James B
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 4034 N Sweet Bay St
Wichita, KS 67226-3509
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 · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N16305, 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 Fross James B, an individual, certificate issued May 24, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7305221 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N16305 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J-2 (serial 538, cancelled May 19, 1948). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N16305. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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