Piper PA-28-181
N240U is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Board Of Regents Of The University Of Oklahoma, a government body in Norman, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 3, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 29, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28020161
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-B4A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2024
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A231C1 (octal 50430701)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 3, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 3, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 29, 2024
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01437564
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Board Of Regents Of The University Of Oklahoma
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 1700 Lexington Ave
Norman, OK 73069-8433
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N240U, 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 Board Of Regents Of The University Of Oklahoma, a government body, certificate issued May 3, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 29, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28020161 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N240U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17268944, cancelled March 13, 2014). 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 N240U: Accident on June 9, 2006 at Athens, OH: 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: Cessna 172N · operated under 091
The student pilot's inadequate compensation for the wind conditions. Factors associated with the accident were the gusty crosswind, and the ditch.
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 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