Piper PA-28-181
N317BF is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Boldflight LLC, an LLC in Greenwood, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 26, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 6, 1979.
Where is it now Last seen today at 4:03 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 28-7990428
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A4M · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A360F1 (octal 50660361)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 26, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 6, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 6, 1979
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00770563
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Boldflight LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 965 Airport Access Dr
Greenwood, IN 46143-1083
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.
Connections how N317BF links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 18,633 registered
- Piper 44,849 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360-A4M 418 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Boldflight LLC 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Greenwood, IN 55 aircraft registered in this town
- Indiana 5,688 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 90 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 3,267 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 697 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-360-A4M 17 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360-A4M 559 reports since 1995
- Where N317BF is now · Last seen today at 4:03 pm.
These connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N317BF.json · about the eFlight graph.
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The public federal record on N317BF, 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 Boldflight LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 26, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 6, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7990428 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N317BF 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N317BF. 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 7, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 7, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 7, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 7, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data