Piper PA-28-161
N496DS is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1993. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Delaware State University, a government body in Dover, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 20, 2006 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 11, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2816105
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1993
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A626BE (octal 51423276)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 20, 2006
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 11, 1994
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00834672
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Delaware State University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 1200 N Dupont Hwy
Dover, DE 19901-2202
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N496DS, 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 Delaware State University, a government body, certificate issued November 20, 2006, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 11, 1994, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2816105 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N496DS 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N496DS. 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