Piper PA-28-181
N500GS is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Cloud Chaser Aviation LLC, an LLC in Chesnee, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 9, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 10, 2005.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 12:26 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 2843611
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A63A97 (octal 51435227)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 9, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 9, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 10, 2005
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00177569
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cloud Chaser Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 523 Horse Creek Rd
Chesnee, SC 29323-3339
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N500GS links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 18,635 registered
- Piper 44,844 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360 series 1,067 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Cloud Chaser Aviation LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Chesnee, SC 11 aircraft registered in this town
- South Carolina 3,113 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 90 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 3,269 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 697 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-360 series 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360 series 425 reports since 1995
- Where N500GS is now · Last seen yesterday at 12:26 pm.
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The public federal record on N500GS, 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 Cloud Chaser Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 9, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 10, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2843611 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N500GS 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 N500GS. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data