Piper PA-28-161
N4870U 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 University Of Oklahoma, a government body in Norman, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 6, 2005 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 25, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2842238
- 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
- A60505 (octal 51402405)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 6, 2005
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 18, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 25, 2005
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00156949
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- University Of Oklahoma
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 1700 Lexington Ave
Norman, OK 73069-8433 - Co-owners
- Board Of Regents
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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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N4870U, 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 University Of Oklahoma, a government body, certificate issued July 6, 2005, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 25, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2842238 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4870U was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna U206G (serial U20605132, cancelled April 29, 1993); Cessna 210-5A(205A) (serial 205-0570, cancelled July 24, 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 N4870U. 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