Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181
N317TW is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2023. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Yale Companies LLC DBA, an LLC in Indianapolis, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 30, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 21, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper Aircraft Inc
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28020141
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-B4A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A36290 (octal 50661220)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 30, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 22, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 21, 2023
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01408295
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Yale Companies LLC DBA
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5149 N Keystone Ave
Indianapolis, IN 46205-1559 - Co-owners
- Hot Wings Aviation
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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 N317TW, 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 Yale Companies LLC DBA, an LLC, certificate issued October 30, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 21, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28020141 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N317TW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Wdl WDL 1B (serial 105, cancelled October 12, 2012). 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 N317TW: Accident on September 11, 1994 at Farmingdale, NY: 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: Wdl 1B · operated under 091
INADEQUATE DESIGN OF THE AIRSHIP, WHICH ALLOWED THE CENTER BALLONET TO OVERFILL AND TO COLLAPSE THE TRUNKING TO THE FORE AND AFT BALLONETS, RENDERING THE AIRSHIP UNCONTROLLABLE. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE BY THE COMPANY/OPERATOR, WHICH ALLOWED THE PURITY OF THE HELIUM TO DECREASE; AND THE CENTER DAMPER VALVE TO OPEN (OR TO BE LEFT OPEN FOR FLIGHT).
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC94FA176 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