Piper PA-28-181
N3044U is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Skywest Leasing INC, a corporation in St George, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 7, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 21, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2843572
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2003
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A33125 (octal 50630445)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 7, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 21, 2003
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00064919
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Skywest Leasing INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 444 S River Rd
St George, UT 84790-2085
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3044U, 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 Skywest Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 7, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 21, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2843572 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3044U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-44-180 (serial 44-7995260, cancelled October 3, 1979). 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 N3044U: Accident on September 2, 2024 at Yuma, AZ: 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: Piper PA-28-181 · operated under 091
The flight instructor’s failure to maintain clearance from a fence during taxi operations.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR24LA306 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