Piper PA-28R-201T
N2878Y is a Piper PA-28R-201T, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Bright Sky Aviation INC, a non-citizen corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The FAA lists the registration as "non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports" (certificate issued December 9, 2005). It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 2, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28R-201T · all PA-28R-201Ts and related versions
- Serial number
- 28R-7931235
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A2EB83 (octal 50565603)
Registration
- Status
- Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports
- Certificate issued
- December 9, 2005
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- October 31, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 2, 1979
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00330533
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bright Sky Aviation INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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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 N2878Y, 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.
Registration status is "Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28R-7931235 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2878Y 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2878Y. 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 September 30, 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