Piper PA-28-181
N355D is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2016. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Professional Training Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 26, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 2, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2843843
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A4M · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2016
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A3F7AB (octal 50773653)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 26, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 2, 2016
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01225002
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Professional Training Aircraft LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 251 Little Falls Dr
Wilmington, DE 19808-1674
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N355D, 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 Professional Training Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 26, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 2, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2843843 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N355D was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Aerospatiale AS 355F1 (serial 5073, cancelled September 23, 2002); Beech C-45G (serial 51-11676, cancelled September 1, 1971). 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 N355D: Accident on March 9, 2002 at Savannah, GA: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). 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: Eurocopter France AS355 F1 · operated under 135
The pilot's failure to follow operating procedures and, experienced spatial disorientation while attempting a night landing to an offshore platform. A factor was a dark night.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL02FA062 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