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N4497X

Piper PA-28-181

Valid Texas

N4497X is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Spring, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 16, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 14, 1975.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
Serial number
28-7690023
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1975
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A56F6F (octal 51267557)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 16, 2019
Expires
March 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · October 14, 1975
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00992694

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Flight School INC
Type
Co-owned
Address
20803 Stuebner Airline Rd
Bldg 101
Spring, TX 77379-5469
Co-owners
Sharfaraz Ahmed

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N4497X, 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 Flight School INC, a co-owned, certificate issued March 16, 2019, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 14, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7690023 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4497X according to the deregistered file. [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 N4497X: Accident on December 20, 1994 at Gr. Barrington, MA: 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

NYC95LA044Accident on December 20, 1994 at Gr. Barrington, MA: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 28-7670023

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-181 · operated under 091

The pilot landed with excessive airspeed which resulted in a long landing, runway overrun, and collision with trees.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC95LA044 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