Piper J4A
N27858 is a Piper J4A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Iowa City, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 25, 1958. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- J4A · all J4As and related versions
- Serial number
- 4-1078
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1940
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- A2C75C (octal 50543534)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 14, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · August 25, 1958
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00450213
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lust Gary L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4388 Treefarm Ln NE
Iowa City, IA 52240-7828
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 1
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The public federal record on N27858, 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 Lust Gary L, an individual, certificate issued August 14, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 25, 1958, 18 years after the 1940 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 4-1078 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N27858 according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 1, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N27858. 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