Piper PA-28-181
N3053E is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Charles City Aeronautics INC, a corporation in Charles City, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 19, 1978 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 16, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7990186
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A334AB (octal 50632253)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 19, 1978
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 16, 1978
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00201203
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Charles City Aeronautics INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3129 Hwy 18
Charles City, IA 50616
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N3053E, 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 Charles City Aeronautics INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 19, 1978, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 16, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7990186 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3053E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-6642, cancelled September 23, 1970). 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 N3053E. 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