Piper PA-28-181
N4402A is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Cae Aviation Academy Phoenix LLC, an LLC in Mesa, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 6, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 20, 2019.
Where is it now Last seen today at 12:02 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
- 2881241
- 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-360-A4M · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2019
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A54D3C (octal 51246474)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 6, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 6, 2025
- 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 · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 20, 2019
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01306127
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cae Aviation Academy Phoenix LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5010 e Falcon Dr
Mesa, AZ 85215-2546
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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 2
Connections how N4402A links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 18,620 registered
- Piper 44,839 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360-A4M 418 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Cae Aviation Academy Phoenix LLC 55 aircraft in the fleet
- Mesa, AZ 714 aircraft registered in this town
- Falcon Field · FFZ
- Arizona 8,435 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 3,272 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 697 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-360-A4M 17 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360-A4M 559 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Control Arm, cracked · 2025-08-13
- Where N4402A is now · Last seen today at 12:02 pm.
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The public federal record on N4402A, 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 Cae Aviation Academy Phoenix LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 6, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 20, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2881241 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4402A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Raven S-60A (serial S60A-345, cancelled May 13, 2013); Piper PA-22-150 (serial 22-3729, cancelled January 21, 1971). 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 N4402A: Accident on April 22, 2023 at Mesa, AZ: 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-28-181 · operated under 091
The student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control, and the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 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 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data