Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181
N382BT is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Piper Aircraft INC, a non-citizen corporation in Vero Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper Aircraft Inc
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28010086
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A462E3 (octal 51061343)
Registration
- Status
- Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- September 17, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01577371
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Piper Aircraft INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- Address
- 2926 Piper Dr
Vero Beach, FL 32960-1955
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N382BT, 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 Piper Aircraft INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28010086 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N382BT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R44 II (serial 10107, cancelled December 10, 2009). 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 N382BT: Accident on April 23, 2007 at Bass Lake, IN: 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: Robinson Helicopter Company R44 II · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain a proper approach glidepath, which resulted in a settling-with-power flight condition. Contributing to the accident was the dark night light condition.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI07FA114 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