Piper PA-15
N4431H is a Piper PA-15, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dover, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 7, 2002 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 7, 1956. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-15 · all PA-15s and related versions
- Serial number
- 15-216
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C75 SERIES · 75 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- A55845 (octal 51254105)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 7, 2002
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · August 7, 1956
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00552464
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hood William E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5230 Wyse Fork Rd
Dover, NC 28526-8842
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.
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The public federal record on N4431H, 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 Hood William E, an individual, certificate issued October 7, 2002, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 7, 1956, 8 years after the 1948 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15-216 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4431H according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 29, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N4431H. 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 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