Piper PA-28-181
N2885D is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Lehigh Valley Flying Club INC, a corporation in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2017 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 21, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7990520
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A4M · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A2EEBE (octal 50567276)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 3, 2017
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 21, 2008
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00900543
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lehigh Valley Flying Club INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 20272
Lehigh Valley, PA 18002-0272
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N2885D, 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 Lehigh Valley Flying Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 3, 2017, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 21, 2008, 29 years after the 1979 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 28-7990520 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2885D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Consolidated L5E1 (serial 44-17531, cancelled April 25, 1974). 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 N2885D: Accident on November 16, 2003 at Westerly, RI: fatal, minor damage (2 fatal). 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: Piper PA-28-181 · operated under 091
The Piper pilot's improper decision to continue a landing on an occupied runway, which resulted in an in-flight collision with the departing Cessna. Factors related to the accident were the departing Cessna pilot's inattentive radio communications, and the obscured visibility of the traffic pattern from the air and ground by trees located at the departure end of the runway.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC04FA033 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