Piper PA-28-161
N4860U is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Board Of Regents Of The University Of Oklahoma, a government body in Norman, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2005 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 19, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2842237
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A6014E (octal 51400516)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 29, 2005
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 18, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 19, 2005
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00156939
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Board Of Regents Of The University Of Oklahoma
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 1700 Lexington Ave
Norman, OK 73069-8433
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N4860U, 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 Board Of Regents Of The University Of Oklahoma, a government body, certificate issued June 29, 2005, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 19, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2842237 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4860U was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna U206G (serial U20605130, cancelled March 6, 1996); Cessna 210-5A(205A) (serial 205-0560, cancelled July 21, 1964). 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 N4860U. 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