Piper PA-28-181
N248CB is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2017. It has 4 seats. It is registered to California Baptist University, a corporation in Riverside, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 8, 2018 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 22, 2017.
Where is it now Last seen October 27 at 1:39 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
- 2881003
- 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
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2017
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A24DEB (octal 50446753)
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 8, 2018
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- March 7, 2024
- 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 22, 2017
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01268658
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- California Baptist University (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 6865 Airport Dr
Riverside, CA 92504-1903
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 3
Connections how N248CB links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 18,637 registered
- Piper 44,845 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 992 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- California Baptist University 19 aircraft in the fleet
- Riverside, CA 213 aircraft registered in this town
- March Arb Airport · RIV
- Riverside Airport · RAL
- California 27,708 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 3,269 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 N248CB is now · Last seen October 27 at 1:39 pm.
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The public federal record on N248CB, 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 California Baptist University, a corporation, certificate issued February 8, 2018, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 22, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2881003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N248CB was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Cirrus Design Corp SR22 (serial 3407, cancelled May 5, 2016); Carley Dennis S CHALLENGER II (serial CH2-0102-2177, cancelled August 22, 2006); Piper PA-23-250 (serial 274204, cancelled date not given). 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 N248CB. 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 November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data