Piper PA-28-181
N21985 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 N21985 LLC, an LLC in Deltona, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 5, 2006 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 11, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7990066
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A1DE7F (octal 50357177)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 5, 2006
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 11, 1978
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00432272
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- N21985 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1301 Nadine Dr
Deltona, FL 32738-9719
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N21985, 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 N21985 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 5, 2006, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 11, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7990066 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N21985 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 150L (serial 15074590, cancelled July 19, 1974); Porterfield CP-50 (serial 568, cancelled June 3, 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]
1 NTSB record under N21985: Accident on September 24, 1988 at Orleans, IN: 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-28-181 · operated under 091
THE PILOT FAILED TO MAINTAIN AN ADEQUATE VISUAL LOOKOUT AND TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE CLEARANCE FROM THE UTILITY POLE AND TRANSMISSION WIRE. CONTRIBUTING TO THE CAUSE WERE THE PILOT'S TOTAL LACK OF EXPERIENCE, TASK OVERLOAD, AND ANXIETY, STEMMING FROM A PARTIAL LOSS OF ELECTRICAL POWER, WHICH LED TO DISORIENTATION AND THE ATTEMPTED LANDING AT THE WRONG AIRPORT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI88LA247 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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