Piper PA-28R-201
N172ND is a Piper PA-28R-201, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1988. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Blue Max Aero LLC, an LLC in Miles City, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2002 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 19, 1988.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28R-201 · all PA-28R-201s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2837007
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1988
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A121CB (octal 50220713)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 2, 2002
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 19, 1988
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00384341
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blue Max Aero LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- C/O Daniel C Brooke
1 Spruce Dr
Miles City, MT 59301-4937
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N172ND, 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 Blue Max Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 2, 2002, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 19, 1988, consistent with the 1988 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2837007 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N172ND according to the deregistered file. [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 N172ND: Accident on July 27, 1993 at Crookston, MN: 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 · operated under 091
THE PILOT IN COMMAND'S DELAYED IN-FLIGHT DECISION. A FACTOR TO THE ACCIDENT IS THE PILOT IN COMMAND'S FAILURE TO ATTAIN A PROPER TOUCHDOWN POINT.
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