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N43020

Piper PA-28-151

Valid Illinois

N43020 is a Piper PA-28-151, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Blue Skies Flying Services INC, a corporation in Lake In The Hills, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 27, 2012 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 10, 1974.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-151 · all PA-28-151s and related versions
Serial number
28-7415409
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1974
Cruising speed
80 mph
Transponder code
A525D5 (octal 51222725)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 27, 2012
Expires
March 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · April 10, 1974
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00162014

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Blue Skies Flying Services INC
Type
Corporation
Address
8411 Pyott Rd
Lake In The Hills, IL 60156-6516

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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N43020, 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 Blue Skies Flying Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 27, 2012, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 10, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7415409 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N43020 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N43020: Accident on September 19, 2020 at Huntley, IL: 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

CEN20CA405Accident on September 19, 2020 at Huntley, IL: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA28 · operated under 091

The pilot’s decision to land at night without runway lighting, which resulted in a collision with an object.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN20CA405 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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