Piper PA-28-161
N3980U is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to University Of Oklahoma, a government body in Norman, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 21, 2005 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 8, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2842221
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A4A2EC (octal 51121354)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 21, 2005
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 18, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 8, 2005
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00149369
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- University Of Oklahoma
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 1700 Lexington Ave
Norman, OK 73069-8433 - Co-owners
- Board Of Regents
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N3980U, 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 University Of Oklahoma, a government body, certificate issued April 21, 2005, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 8, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2842221 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3980U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Rockwell International 690B (serial 11380, cancelled May 4, 1984). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3980U. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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