Piper PA-28-181
N2228Z is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Thunderbird Aircraft CO, a corporation in Bloomington, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 1984 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 30, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7990408
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A1EBF7 (octal 50365767)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 30, 1984
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 30, 1979
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00101852
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thunderbird Aircraft CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1600 W 82Nd St Ste 100
Bloomington, MN 55431-1411
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N2228Z, 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 Thunderbird Aircraft CO, a corporation, certificate issued January 30, 1984, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 30, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7990408 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2228Z 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 N2228Z: Accident on August 8, 1997 at Glencoe, MN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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-28-121 · operated under 091
failure of the pilot to maintain directional control of the airplane during the landing, which resulted in an inadvertent ground swerve and subsequent collision with trees. Factors associated with the accident were: the crosswind, and proximity of trees.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data