Piper PA-28-181
N2331M is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Smith Ctr Kite Club INC, a corporation in Smith Center, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 21, 1979 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7890247
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A2162C (octal 50413054)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 21, 1979
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00982232
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Ctr Kite Club INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 18081 100 Rd
Smith Center, KS 66967-3623
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N2331M, 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 Smith Ctr Kite Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 21, 1979, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7890247 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2331M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-12 (serial 12-1397, cancelled February 28, 1956). 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 N2331M: Accident on May 25, 1994 at Weeping Water, NE: 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-in-command's misjudging compensation for wind conditions. Factors were tailwind, and wind information confusing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI94LA174 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