Piper PA-28-161
N285BG is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2016. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Bowling Green Flight Center LLC, an LLC in Bowling Green, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 27, 2016 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 22, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2842420
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-D3G · 160 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2016
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A2E0AE (octal 50560256)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 27, 2016
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 22, 2016
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01203758
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bowling Green Flight Center LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 905 E Poe Rd
Bowling Green, OH 43402
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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 1
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The public federal record on N285BG, 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 Bowling Green Flight Center LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 27, 2016, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 22, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2842420 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N285BG was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 185D (serial 185-0798, cancelled June 17, 1999). 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 N285BG: Accident on April 11, 1997 at Wetumpka, AL: no 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: Cessna 185D · operated under 091
loss of engine power during a go-around for undetermined reason(s).
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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