Piper PA-28-181
N418PA is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Skywest Leasing INC, a corporation in St George, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 9, 2001.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 2843414
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2000
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A4F31E (octal 51171436)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 11, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 11, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 9, 2001
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00493614
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Skywest Leasing INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 444 S River Rd
St George, UT 84790-2085
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N418PA links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 18,639 registered
- Piper 44,848 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360-A1D 1,057 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Skywest Leasing INC 112 aircraft in the fleet
- St George, UT 676 aircraft registered in this town
- St. George Regional · SGU
- Utah 8,355 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 90 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 3,269 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 697 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-360-A1D 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360-A1D 82 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Frame, cracked · 2018-01-04
- Report filed on this aircraft: Rib, cracked · 2018-01-04
- Report filed on this aircraft: Rib, cracked · 2018-01-04
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The public federal record on N418PA, 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 Skywest Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 11, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 9, 2001, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2843414 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N418PA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 707-321B (serial 18960, cancelled January 2, 1981). 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 N418PA: Accident on December 8, 2010 at Phoenix, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-181 · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to maintain clearance from obstacles while taxiing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data