Piper PA-28-181
N21866 is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Oakland, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 6, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7990063
- 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
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A1DA83 (octal 50355203)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 30, 2020
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 6, 1978
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00991602
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Donthineni Rakesh
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 5700 Telegraph Ave Ste 100
Oakland, CA 94609-1710
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N21866, 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 Donthineni Rakesh, an individual, certificate issued January 30, 2020, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 6, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7990063 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N21866 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna A188B (serial 18801086T, cancelled June 15, 1973); Piper J3L-65 (serial 2646, cancelled June 15, 1951). 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 N21866. 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