Piper PA-28-180
N16551 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 Mike Smith Construction INC, a corporation in Holyoke, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 2001 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 20, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-180 · all PA-28-180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7305283
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 107 mph
- Transponder code
- A10762 (octal 50203542)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 19, 2001
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 20, 1973
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00562160
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mike Smith Construction INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 448
Holyoke, CO 80734-0448
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 · 4 clear
The public federal record on N16551, 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 Mike Smith Construction INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 19, 2001, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 20, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7305283 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N16551 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca C-3 (serial A-691, cancelled April 16, 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 N16551. 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