Piper PA-28-161
N4347G is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Purdue Pilots INC, a corporation in West Lafayette, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 2016 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 27, 1984.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8416062
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1984
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A5354E (octal 51232516)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 8, 2016
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 27, 1984
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00512174
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Purdue Pilots INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- Krach Leadership Center
1198 3Rd St Mailbox 8
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2109
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4347G, 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 Purdue Pilots INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 8, 2016, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 27, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8416062 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4347G was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcculloch Aircraft Corp. J-2 (serial 057, cancelled September 19, 1974). 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 N4347G: Accident on March 22, 1986 at Hartford, CT: no 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-28-161 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC86LA087 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data