Piper PA-28-181
N47431 is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Allen Park, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2000 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 9, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7890071
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A5D2D1 (octal 51351321)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 9, 2000
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 9, 1977
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00873554
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thornley Kyle A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9377 Allen Rd
Allen Park, MI 48101-1437
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N47431, 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 Thornley Kyle A, an individual, certificate issued February 9, 2000, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 9, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7890071 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N47431 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR (serial 1362, cancelled June 30, 1948). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
1 NTSB record under N47431: Accident on January 27, 1989 at Goodland, KS: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Piper PA-28-181 · operated under 091
THE LOSS OF ENGINE POWER RESULTING FROM AN EXHAUST VALVE FAILURE. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE LACK OF SUITABLE TERRAIN FOR A FORCED LANDING.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC89LA058 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