Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181
N402A is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Archer Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 10, 2013 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 23, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper Aircraft Inc
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2843737
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A4M · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A4B40F (octal 51132017)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 10, 2013
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 23, 2013
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01132713
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Archer 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 N402A, 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 Archer Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 10, 2013, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 23, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2843737 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N402A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-82(MD-82) (serial 49313, cancelled June 25, 2009); Kaman K225 (serial 6, cancelled November 2, 1950). 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 N402A: Accident on December 20, 2004 at Providence, RI: 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: Mcdonnell Douglas MD-82 · operated under 121
The vehicle driver's failure to maintain directional control, which resulted in a collision with the airplane during push-back. A factor was the icy ramp area.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC05LA038 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