Piper PA-28-180
N317HM is a Piper PA-28-180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Splendid Aviation-Victoria LLC, an LLC in Corpus Christi, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 31, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 3, 1966.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-180 · all PA-28-180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-3734
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 107 mph
- Transponder code
- A3618D (octal 50660615)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 31, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 31, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 3, 1966
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00900291
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Splendid Aviation-Victoria LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 549 Pinson Dr
Corpus Christi, TX 78406-1818
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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 N317HM, 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 Splendid Aviation-Victoria LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 31, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 3, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-3734 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N317HM 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 N317HM: Accident on April 14, 2026 at Corpus Christi, TX: serious injuries, destroyed. 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-28-180 · operated under 091
On April 13, 2026, about 19:19 central daylight time, a Piper Cherokee PA-28-180 airplane, N317HM was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Corpus Christi, Texas. The flight instructor and student pilot were seriously injured. The airplane was operated under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as an instructional flight. ADS-B data revealed that the airplane departed Corpus Christi International Airport (CRP), Corpus Christi, Texas, about 1850. According to first responders, the flight instructor and student pilot said that they were practicing touch and…
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- 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