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N5231K

Piper PA-28-181

Valid Texas

N5231K is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Three One Kilo LLC, an LLC in Austin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 9, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 22, 1978.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
Serial number
28-7990042
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1978
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A69698 (octal 51513230)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 9, 2020
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
August 18, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · August 22, 1978
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00441432

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Three One Kilo LLC
Type
LLC
Address
4215 Lacey Cup Dr
Austin, TX 78731-6603

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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

1956-02-14Ryan NAVION B · Valid registration
—Cessna 172P · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5231K, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Three One Kilo LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 9, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 22, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7990042 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5231K was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Ryan NAVION B (serial NAV-4-2131B, cancelled February 14, 1956); Cessna 172P (serial 17274023, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5231K. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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