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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026
N5DW

Piper PA-28RT-201T

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesKansas

N5DW is a Piper PA-28RT-201T, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lawrence, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 7, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 18, 1983.

Where is it now Last seen October 13 at 12:34 pm.

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28RT-201T · all PA-28RT-201Ts 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
28R-8331027
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
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A6359E (octal 51432636)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
July 7, 2026
Expires
July 31, 2033
Last FAA action
July 7, 2026
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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 18, 1983
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00640835

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sanderson Luann e Trustee
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
5004 Congressional Way
Lawrence, KS 66049-4822

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N5DW links to the rest of the register

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5DW, 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 Sanderson Luann e Trustee, an individual, certificate issued July 7, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; 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 28R-8331027 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5DW 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5DW. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data