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N404DS

Piper PA-28-151

Valid Delaware

N404DS is a Piper PA-28-151, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Delaware State Universtiy, a government body in Dover, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 18, 1989 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 17, 1976.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-151 · all PA-28-151s and related versions
Serial number
28-7615141
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1976
Cruising speed
80 mph
Transponder code
A4BBD9 (octal 51135731)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 18, 1989
Expires
May 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · February 17, 1976
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00112531

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Delaware State Universtiy
Type
Government
Address
1200 N Dupont Hwy Airway Sc
Dover, DE 19901

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N404DS, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Delaware State Universtiy, a government body, certificate issued January 18, 1989, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 17, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7615141 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N404DS according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N404DS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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