Piper PA-28-140
N217AW is a Piper PA-28-140, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Hobart Aviation INC, a corporation in Akron, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 17, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 2, 1971.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-140 · all PA-28-140s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7125332
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 107 mph
- Transponder code
- A1D398 (octal 50351630)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 17, 2020
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 8, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 2, 1971
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00971285
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hobart Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1600 Triplett Blvd Bldg B
Akron, OH 44306-3308
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 N217AW, 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 Hobart Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 17, 2020, expires January 31, 2030. 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 28-7125332 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N217AW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 28-25046, cancelled April 13, 2011). 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 N217AW: Accident on May 22, 2005 at Edinburg, OH: fatal, substantial damage (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: Piper PA-28-140 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control.
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