Piper PA-28-161
N440FT is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Aviation Express INC, a corporation in Greenville, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 1992 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 25, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8216219
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A54B2C (octal 51245454)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 21, 1992
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 25, 1982
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00072394
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aviation Express INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- N 1231 Peaceful Ct
Greenville, WI 54942
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N440FT, 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 Aviation Express INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 21, 1992, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 25, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8216219 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N440FT 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]
1 NTSB record under N440FT: Accident on March 23, 1991 at Melbourne, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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
THE LOSS OF CONTROL ON THE GROUND BY THE STUDENT PILOT DUE TO A LACK OF TOTAL EXPERIENCE AND APPREHENSION ON HIS FIRST SOLO FLIGHT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA91LA105 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