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N4445K

Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-161

Valid Florida

N4445K is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Skyborne Airline Academy INC, a non-citizen corporation in Vero Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 21, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 29, 2015.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper Aircraft Inc
Model
PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
Serial number
2842399
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-D3G · 160 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2015
Transponder code
A55C8A (octal 51256212)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 21, 2021
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · September 29, 2015
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
01193070

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Skyborne Airline Academy INC
Type
Non-citizen corporation
Address
2805 Airport Dr
Vero Beach, FL 32960-1942

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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 1

1954-09-24Ryan NAVION A · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N4445K, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Skyborne Airline Academy INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued May 21, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 29, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2842399 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4445K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ryan NAVION A (serial NAV-4-1445, cancelled September 24, 1954). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N4445K: Accident on December 16, 1985 at Spartanburg, SC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ATL86LA043Accident on December 16, 1985 at Spartanburg, SC: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 790038

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-31T · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL86LA043 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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