Piper PA-28-181
N3010W is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1995. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sunwest Aviation INC, a corporation in Santa Ynez, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 29, 2014 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated April 11, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-43016
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1995
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A32576 (octal 50622566)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 29, 2014
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · April 11, 2002
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00804147
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sunwest Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 960
Santa Ynez, CA 93460-0960
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 N3010W, 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 Sunwest Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 29, 2014, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 11, 2002, 7 years after the 1995 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 28-43016 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3010W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 58 (serial TH363, cancelled March 23, 1998). 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 N3010W: Accident on January 21, 1996 at Atkins, AR: fatal, destroyed (4 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: Beech 58 · operated under 091
Continued flight by the pilot into instrument meteorological conditions (IMC), and his failure to maintain sufficient altitude above mountainous/hilly terrain. Factors relating to the accident were: low ceiling, fog, and high terrain in the area of the accident.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW96FA100 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