Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181
N461FA is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2022. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Stratus RR LLC, an LLC in New Castle, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 30, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 23, 2022.
Where is it now Last seen Wednesday at 11:50 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper Aircraft Inc
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 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
- 28020061
- 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 IO-360-B4A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A59DD0 (octal 51316720)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 30, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 23, 2022
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01359163
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stratus RR LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 131 N Dupont Hwy
New Castle, DE 19720-3135
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N461FA links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 18,639 registered
- Piper Aircraft Inc 1,444 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360-B4A 990 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Stratus Rr LLC 18 aircraft in the fleet
- New Castle, DE 206 aircraft registered in this town
- Delaware 10,965 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 90 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 3,269 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 697 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360-B4A 32 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360-B4A 65 reports since 1995
- Where N461FA is now · Last seen Wednesday at 11:50 am.
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The public federal record on N461FA, 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 Stratus RR LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 30, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 23, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28020061 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N461FA 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 N461FA. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data