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N28086

Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181

Valid Arizona

N28086 is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2020. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Cae Aviation Academy Phoenix LLC, an LLC in Mesa, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 8, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 21, 2020.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper Aircraft Inc
Model
PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
Serial number
2881392
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-B4A · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2020
Transponder code
A2D18A (octal 50550612)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 8, 2025
Expires
October 31, 2032
Last FAA action
October 8, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · August 21, 2020
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01323066

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cae Aviation Academy Phoenix LLC
Type
LLC
Address
5010 E Falcon Dr
Mesa, AZ 85215-2546

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 2

2012-08-27Bellanca 17-30A · Sale reported, canceled
1959-03-11Piper J3F-65 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N28086, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Cae Aviation Academy Phoenix LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 8, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 21, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2881392 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N28086 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bellanca 17-30A (serial 79-30929, cancelled August 27, 2012); Piper J3F-65 (serial 4566, cancelled March 11, 1959). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N28086: Accident on September 27, 2004 at Roanoke, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

DFW05CA021Accident on September 27, 2004 at Roanoke, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 79-30929

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bellanca BL-17-30A · operated under 091

The disconnection of the engine mixture control cable due to improper maintenance which resulted in a loss of engine power.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW05CA021 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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