Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181
N494LA is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2021. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Piper 3 LLC, an LLC in Chestnut Ridge, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 26, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 18, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper Aircraft Inc
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28020022
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-B4A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A61FEF (octal 51417757)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 26, 2022
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 18, 2021
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01343339
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Piper 3 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 777 Chestnut Ridge Rd Ste 301
Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977-6221
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N494LA, 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 Piper 3 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 26, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 18, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28020022 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N494LA according to the deregistered file. [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 N494LA: Accident on April 1, 2026 at Philadelphia, PA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper Aircraft INC PA-28-181 · operated under 091
On April 1, 2026, about 1541 eastern daylight time, a Piper PA-28-181, N494LA, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The flight instructor received minor injuries, and the student pilot received serious injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. The flight instructor reported that the purpose of the flight was to prepare the student pilot for his upcoming check ride. After an uneventful flight, they returned to Northeast Philadelphia Airport (PNE), Philadelphia, Pennsylvani…
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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