Piper PA-28-181
N478A is a Piper 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 January 22, 2014 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 4, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2843746
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A4M · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2013
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A5DED2 (octal 51357322)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 2014
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 4, 2013
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01135397
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Archer Aircraft LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 251 Little Falls Dr
Wilmington, DE 19808-1674
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N478A, 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 Archer Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 22, 2014, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 4, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2843746 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N478A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Martin 404 (serial 14226, cancelled May 9, 1968). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N478A. 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 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