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N41997

Piper PA-28R-200

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesIllinois

N41997 is a Piper PA-28R-200, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Caae Leasing LLC, an LLC in Lake Zurich, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 15, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 8, 1974.

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28R-200 · all PA-28R-200s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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
28R-7435235
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 I0360 SER · 180 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
4
Year built
1974
Cruising speed
107 mph
Transponder code
A4F942 (octal 51174502)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 15, 2021
Expires
December 31, 2028
Last FAA action
July 1, 2023
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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 8, 1974
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00771634

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Caae Leasing LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
38 e Harbor Dr
Lake Zurich, IL 60047-3076

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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

1955-10-21Curtiss Wright SNC-1 · Valid registration

Connections how N41997 links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Lake Zurich, IL 12 aircraft registered in this town
  • Illinois 8,061 aircraft registered
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N41997.json.

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The public federal record on N41997, 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 Caae Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 15, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated April 8, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28R-7435235 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N41997 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Curtiss Wright SNC-1 (serial 4219, cancelled October 21, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N41997: Accident on December 2, 2024 at Boscobel, WI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CEN25LA053Accident on December 2, 2024 at Boscobel, WI: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28R-200 · operated under 091

The ice obstruction of the engine oil breather tube and alternate air outlet, which resulted in a failure of the crankcase oil seal and loss of engine oil. Contributing to the accident was the incorrect engine oil breather tube installed in the airplane by maintenance personnel.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data