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N55502

Piper PA-28-180

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNebraska

N55502 is a Piper PA-28-180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Blue Valley Flying Club INC, a corporation in Denton, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 1, 2018 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 16, 1973.

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-180 · all PA-28-180s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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
28-7305401
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&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
107 mph
Transponder code
A71471 (octal 51612161)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
October 1, 2018
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
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 · April 16, 1973
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00423585

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Blue Valley Flying Club INC (flying club: its whole fleet and safety record)
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
8055 Haley Lynn Ln
Denton, NE 68339-9606
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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N55502 links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Denton, NE 5 aircraft registered in this town
  • Nebraska 2,947 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N55502.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N55502, 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 Blue Valley Flying Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 1, 2018, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7305401 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N55502 according to the deregistered file. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N55502: Incident on February 7, 2009 at Fairmont, NE: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CEN09IA161Incident on February 7, 2009 at Fairmont, NE: no injuries, minor damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA28 · operated under 091

Both pilots' failure to see and avoid the other aircraft.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data