Piper PA-28-181
N249WF is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Wifa (Washington International Flight Academy) LLC, an LLC in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 21, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 5, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7690114
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A25368 (octal 50451550)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 21, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 31, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · July 5, 2023
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00353401
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wifa (Washington International Flight Academy) LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7940 Airpark Rd
Gaithersburg, MD 20879-4176
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N249WF, 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 Wifa (Washington International Flight Academy) LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 21, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 5, 2023, 47 years after the 1976 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7690114 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N249WF according to the deregistered file. [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 N249WF: Accident on June 21, 2026 at Bowie, MD: fatal, substantial damage (3 fatal). 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
On June 20, 2026, about 2328 eastern daylight time, a Piper PA-28-181, N249WF, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Bowie, Maryland. The pilot and two passengers were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to preliminary Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) data, the airplane departed Montgomery County Airpark (GAI), Gaithersburg, Maryland, about 1630 and flew to Ocean City Municipal Airport (26N), Ocean City, New Jersey, where it landed about 1741. The airplane later de…
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data