Piper PA-28-181
N181Y 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 Tailwinds Aviation Academy LLC, an LLC in Grass Valley, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 16, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8590089
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A14689 (octal 50243211)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 14, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 2, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · July 16, 1985
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00810256
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tailwinds Aviation Academy LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 13081 John Bauer Ave
Grass Valley, CA 95945-9533
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N181Y, 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 Tailwinds Aviation Academy LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 14, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. 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 28-8590089 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N181Y was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech 95-A55 (serial TC-488, cancelled November 21, 2007); Piper J-3 (serial 17410, cancelled May 21, 1963). 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 N181Y: Accident on September 2, 2006 at Mcgregor, TX: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Beech BE95 A-55 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed resulting in a stall and loss of control of the airplane.
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