Piper PA-28R-201
N47700 is a Piper PA-28R-201, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Indian River Flying Club INC, a corporation in Rockledge, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 18, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 6, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28R-201 · all PA-28R-201s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28R-7837001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A5DD8C (octal 51356614)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 18, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 6, 1977
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00150075
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Indian River Flying Club INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 561042
Rockledge, FL 32956-1042
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N47700, 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 Indian River Flying Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 18, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 6, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28R-7837001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N47700 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild M-62A (serial T43-7036, cancelled March 30, 1955). 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 N47700: Accident on November 24, 2025 at Pittsfield, IL: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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-28R-201 · operated under 091
On November 23, 2025, about 2137 central standard time (all referenced times are CST), a Piper PA-28R-201 airplane, N47700, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Pittsfield, Illinois. The pilot was fatally injured, and the 2 passengers sustained serious injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to ADS-B flight track data, the pilot flew 4 flights on the day of the accident. The first leg was a 57-minute flight from Valkaria Airport (X59), Valkaria, Florida, to Tampa Executive Airport (VDF) betw…
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data