Piper PA-25-235
N4428Y is a Piper PA-25-235, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Cherry Hill Aviation INC, a corporation in Freetown, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 19, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other, dated July 14, 1993.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-25-235 · all PA-25-235s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. A crop sprayer; the fabric covering is easy to repair in the field. This is how the Piper PA-25 Pawnee 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
- 25-4053
- 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 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- A55592 (octal 51252622)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 19, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · OtherFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 14, 1993
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00972434
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cherry Hill Aviation INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 8569 State Road 135 S
Freetown, IN 47235-9628
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N4428Y links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-25 Pawnee 455 registered
- Piper 44,838 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-540 series 5,245 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Cherry Hill Aviation INC 14 aircraft in the fleet
- Freetown, IN 27 aircraft registered in this town
- Indiana 5,701 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-25 Pawnee 24 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-25 Pawnee 67 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-25 Pawnee 188 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-540 series 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540 series 304 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N4428Y, 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 Cherry Hill Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 19, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for other; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25-4053 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4428Y 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 N4428Y. 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 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 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 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data