Piper PA-28-161
N2436Y is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1985. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Alpha Flight Academy, a non-citizen corporation in Concord, California. The FAA lists the registration as "non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports" (certificate issued November 7, 2025). It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 15, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8516056
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1985
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A23E65 (octal 50437145)
Registration
- Status
- Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports
- Certificate issued
- November 7, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 17, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 15, 1985
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00892265
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alpha Flight Academy
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- Address
- 1780 Sargent Rd
Concord, CA 94518-3352
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 N2436Y, 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.
Registration status is "Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 15, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8516056 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2436Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172D (serial 17249736, cancelled April 9, 1971). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2436Y. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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