Piper PA-28-181
N340PA is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Vidal Aviation LLC, an LLC in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 30, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 31, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2843516
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2002
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A3BE94 (octal 50737224)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 30, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 31, 2002
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00454026
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vidal Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7940 Airpark Rd
Gaithersburg, MD 20879-4176
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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 N340PA, 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 Vidal Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 30, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 31, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2843516 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N340PA 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 N340PA: Accident on March 25, 2004 at Louisville, KY: 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-28-181 · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control while landing, and the CFI's delayed remedial action. A factor related to the accident was the gusting wind conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC04CA094 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