Piper PA-28-181
N43LC is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sanger, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 15, 2016 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated November 17, 1976.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 5:41 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe 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
- 28-7790203
- 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 O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A521C2 (octal 51220702)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 15, 2016
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 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 · UtilityFAA certificate purpose code U (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 17, 1976
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00540997
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Roy Mark A
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 8045 Airfield Dr
Sanger, TX 76266-6207
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N43LC links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 18,618 registered
- Piper 44,837 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360 / VO-360 series 11,931 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Sanger, TX 102 aircraft registered in this town
- Flying C Airport · T87
- Ironhead Airport · T58
- Vultures Row Airport · 6X8
- Texas 29,956 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 90 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 3,269 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 697 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Sender, failed · 1995-04-27
- Where N43LC is now · Last seen yesterday at 5:41 pm.
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The public federal record on N43LC, 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 Roy Mark A, an individual, certificate issued July 15, 2016, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated November 17, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7790203 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N43LC according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N43LC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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