Piper PA-28-181
N261A is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2014. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Meridian Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 24, 2014 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 24, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2843789
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A4M · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2014
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A282B4 (octal 50501264)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 24, 2014
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 24, 2014
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01162138
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Meridian Aircraft LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 251 Little Falls Dr
Wilmington, DE 19808-1674
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 N261A, 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 Meridian Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 24, 2014, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 24, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2843789 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N261A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild M-62A (serial T434383, cancelled December 2, 2009). 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 N261A: Accident on September 23, 1993 at San Antonio, TX: minor 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: Fairchild M-62A · operated under 091
FUEL STARVATION INDUCED POWER LOSS DUE TO THE PILOT'S IMPROPER FUEL TANK SELECTION AND HIS FAILURE TO SWITCH TANKS AFTER THE POWER LOSS. A FACTOR WAS THE LACK OF SUITABLE TERRAIN ONTO WHICH A FORCED LANDING COULD BE EXECUTED.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW93LA264 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