Piper PA-28-181
N50637 is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Great Planes Aviation INC, a corporation in Rochester, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 19, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 16, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2843419
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2001
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A6531B (octal 51451433)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 19, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 31, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 16, 2001
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00143674
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Great Planes Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 7300 Brataas Dr SW
Rochester, MN 55902-1872
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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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N50637, 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 Great Planes Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 19, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 16, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2843419 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N50637 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 150J (serial 15069452, cancelled September 24, 1996); Fairchild M-62A (serial 10724-AE, cancelled March 4, 1955). 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]
1 NTSB record under N50637: Accident on July 3, 1991 at Carlos, MN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO USE ADEQUATE CARBURETOR HEAT. FACTORS TO THE ACCIDENT WERE THE CARBURETOR ICING CONDITIONS AND THE WIRES.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI91LA206 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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