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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2881985
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-B4A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2025
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A1FFD3 (octal 50377723)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 23, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 23, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 30, 2025
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01520596
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Georgia Aviation Authority
- Type
- Government
- 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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16CA382 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