Piper PA-28-161
N564PU is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Purdue Aviation LLC, an LLC in West Lafayette, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 14, 2015 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 29, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2842169
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2002
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A7371E (octal 51633436)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 14, 2015
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 29, 2002
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00006889
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Purdue Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1630 Aviation Dr
West Lafayette, IN 47906-3374
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N564PU, 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 Purdue Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 14, 2015, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 29, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2842169 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N564PU 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]
1 NTSB record under N564PU: Accident on April 12, 2024 at Montmorenci, IN: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Piper PA-28-161 · operated under 091
The pilot’s intentional flight into terrain as an act of suicide.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24LA157 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data