Piper PA-28-181
N43055 is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1983. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Plain Plane Partners LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 27, 2002 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 27, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8390066
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1983
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A52643 (octal 51223103)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 27, 2002
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 27, 1983
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00222024
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Plain Plane Partners LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 108 W 13Th St
Wilmington, DE 19801
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N43055, 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 Plain Plane Partners LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 27, 2002, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 27, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8390066 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N43055 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft BC12-D (serial 6714, cancelled August 20, 1963). 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 N43055: Accident on October 1, 2000 at Boone, NC: minor 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: Piper PA-28-181 · operated under 091
The pilot's misjudgment of speed and distance which resulted in an overrun of the runway. A contributing factor was the tailwind condition.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL01LA002 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