Piper PA-28-180
N3331R is a Piper PA-28-180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Epik Industrial LLC, an LLC in Terre Haute, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 1, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-180 · all PA-28-180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-5661
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 107 mph
- Transponder code
- A3A37F (octal 50721577)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 24, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 24, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 1, 1969
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00352203
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Epik Industrial LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5600 N 13Th St
Terre Haute, IN 47805-1620
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 N3331R, 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 Epik Industrial LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 24, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 1, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-5661 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3331R 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]
5 NTSB records under N3331R: Accident on August 18, 2022 at Sullivan, IN: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 15, 2016 at Valparaiso, IN: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on December 29, 2008 at Valparaiso, IN: 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 5
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-180 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22LA399 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA 28-180 · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a bounced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16CA491 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-180 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper flare during landing, resulting in a bounced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN09CA208 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-180 · operated under 091
the pilot's inadequate preflight planning which resulted in landing on unsuitable terrain (wet, grass). Factors associated with the accident were the wet grass and the fence.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI98LA329 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-180 · operated under 091
INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION BY THE PILOT, WHICH RESULTED IN INADVERTENT FLIGHT IN ICING CONDITIONS AND RAPID ACCUMULATION OF AIRFRAME ICE, AND THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN SUFFICIENT AIRSPEED TO FLARE DURING THE LANDING. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS AND THE PILOT'S LACK OF VISUAL PERCEPTION WITH ICE ON THE WINDSHIELD.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI89LA045 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
