Piper PA-28-181
N586MA is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Wifa (Washington International Flight Academy) LLC, an LLC in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 20, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 16, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2843297
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1999
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A78D46 (octal 51706506)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 20, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 20, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 16, 1999
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00836082
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wifa (Washington International Flight Academy) LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7940 Airpark Rd
Gaithersburg, MD 20879-4176
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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
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The public federal record on N586MA, 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 Wifa (Washington International Flight Academy) LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 20, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 16, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2843297 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N586MA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Saab-Scania SAAB 340B (serial 340B-165, cancelled March 17, 1999); Mooney M-20G (serial 680008, cancelled February 10, 1982). 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 N586MA: Accident on August 14, 2026 at State College, PA: no injuries. 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-28-181 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA26LA307 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