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Piper PA-28-181
N228MG is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Georgia Aviation Authority, a government body in Eastman, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 23, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 30, 2025.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 4:53 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 2881985
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-B4A · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2025
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A1FFD3 (octal 50377723)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 23, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 23, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 30, 2025
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01520596
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Georgia Aviation Authority
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 71 Airport Rd
Eastman, GA 31023-3900
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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 1
Connections how N228MG links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 18,621 registered
- Piper 44,840 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360-B4A 1,000 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Georgia Aviation Authority 67 aircraft in the fleet
- Eastman, GA 75 aircraft registered in this town
- Heart Of Georgia Regional · EZM
- Georgia 8,804 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 90 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 3,272 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 697 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360-B4A 32 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360-B4A 65 reports since 1995
- Where N228MG is now · Last seen yesterday at 4:53 pm.
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The public federal record on N228MG, 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 Georgia Aviation Authority, a government body, certificate issued February 23, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 30, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2881985 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N228MG was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Gonzalez Manuel A RV-7A (serial 71045, cancelled May 30, 2018). 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 N228MG: Accident on July 16, 2016 at Langley, WA: minor 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: Gonzalez Manuel A RV 7 · operated under 091
The pilot's decision to land with a tailwind, which resulted in, landing long, a runway overrun, and impact with a berm and nose over.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data