Piper PA-28-161
N31900 is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wshngtn Xing, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 13, 1999 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 3, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7816592
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A36AB1 (octal 50665261)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 13, 1999
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 3, 1978
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00871663
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Woodward Joseph A JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 33 Commanders Dr
Wshngtn Xing, PA 18977-1146
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N31900, 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 Woodward Joseph A JR, an individual, certificate issued August 13, 1999, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 3, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7816592 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N31900 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 65-CA (serial CA11901, cancelled June 10, 1949). 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 N31900: Accident on April 8, 1988 at Fort Smith, AR: 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: Piper PA-28-161 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC88LA075 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