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N470A

Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181

Valid Delaware

N470A is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Archer Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 27, 2013 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 13, 2013.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper Aircraft Inc
Model
PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
Serial number
2843742
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A4M · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2013
Transponder code
A5C11A (octal 51340432)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 27, 2013
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · November 13, 2013
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01133948

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Archer Aircraft LLC
Type
LLC
Address
251 Little Falls Dr
Wilmington, DE 19808-1674

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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 2

2009-05-20Cessna 402C · exported to Colombia · Valid registration
—Cessna 402C · B

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N470A, 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 Archer Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 27, 2013, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 13, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2843742 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N470A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 402C (serial 402C0004, cancelled May 20, 2009); Cessna 402C (serial 402C0283, cancelled date not given). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N470A. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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