Piper PA-28-181
N541CW is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2018. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Central Washington University, a government body in Ellensburg, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2018 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 1, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2881050
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-B4A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2018
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A6DBEA (octal 51555752)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 15, 2018
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 1, 2018
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01280865
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Central Washington University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 400 E University Way Msc 7480
Ellensburg, WA 98926-7502
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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 1
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The public federal record on N541CW, 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 Central Washington University, a government body, certificate issued September 15, 2018, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 1, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2881050 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N541CW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mitsubishi MU-300 (serial A004 S.A., cancelled February 4, 2009). 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 N541CW: Accident on February 11, 2002 at Cleveland, OH: 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: Mitsubishi MU-300 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to obtain the proper touch down point on the runway, and the pilot-in-commands failure to initiate a go-round. Factors in the accident were the tailwind condition, the snow-covered runway.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data