Piper PA-28-181
N450AA is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Centex Aero LLC Trustee, an LLC in San Antonio, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 19, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 5, 2019. 1 document is on file: repossession.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2881256
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A4M · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2019
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A5721D (octal 51271035)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 19, 2020
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 5, 2019
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01308510
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Centex Aero LLC Trustee
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 460689
San Antonio, TX 78246-0689
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.
Documents on file 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N450AA, 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 Centex Aero LLC Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued February 19, 2020, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 5, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2881256 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N450AA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-82(MD-82) (serial 49476, cancelled July 26, 2011). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Repossession (September 30, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N450AA: Incident on June 25, 1999 at San Diego, CA: no injuries. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing DC-9-82 · operated under 121
failure of the number three bearing. The resulting oil leak from the bearing led to coke/carbon buildup, which resulted in chafing of the turbine's low-pressure compressor drive shaft on the rear compressor seal tube and subsequent fracture of the drive shaft.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX99IA230 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
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