Piper PA-28-181
N3072H 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 co-owned owners in Prestonsburg, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 13, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7990233
- 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
- A33BF9 (octal 50635771)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 4, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 13, 1978
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00521263
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Porter Paul S
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1500 Stephens Branch Rd
Prestonsburg, KY 41653-9134 - Co-owners
- Porter James F
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.
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The public federal record on N3072H, 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 Porter Paul S, a co-owned, certificate issued June 4, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 13, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7990233 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3072H according to the deregistered file. [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 N3072H: Accident on April 6, 1991 at West Branch, MI: serious injuries. 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 PILOT'S FAILURE TO FOLLOW RECOMMEDED STARTING PROCEDURES/DIRECTIVES AND PRECAUTIONS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI91LA127 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data