Piper PA-28-161
N2972C is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Hoosier Aviation LLC, an LLC in Terre Haute, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 8, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 24, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8016003
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A3121C (octal 50611034)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 8, 2025
- Expires
- January 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- January 8, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · July 24, 1979
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00981373
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hoosier Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 581 S Airport St
Terre Haute, IN 47803-9705
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
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The public federal record on N2972C, 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 Hoosier Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 8, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 24, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8016003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2972C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180 (serial 30872, cancelled September 13, 1954). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2972C. 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