Piper PA-28-181
N4385M is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hollywood, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 5, 2022 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility; acrobatic, dated January 11, 1985. 1 document is on file: loan release.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8590025
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1984
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A543E9 (octal 51241751)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 5, 2022
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility; Acrobatic · January 11, 1985
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00060375
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cowlin Christopher S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4846 8Th Tee Dr
Hollywood, SC 29449-5974
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4385M, 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 Cowlin Christopher S, an individual, certificate issued April 5, 2022, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility; acrobatic, dated January 11, 1985, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8590025 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4385M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-12 (serial 12-3321, cancelled May 20, 1965). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Loan release (September 18, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N4385M: Accident on March 19, 1995 at Ann Arbor, MI: 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 failure of the mechanic to close the drain valve after changing oil, resulting in complete loss of engine oil. A factor was the soft terrain, which resulted in the nose wheel digging in and the airplane nosing over.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI95LA104 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