Piper PA-28-181
N658FT is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Florida Institute Of Technology INC, a corporation in Melbourne, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 17, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 18, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28020183
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-B4A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2024
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A8AB01 (octal 52125401)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 17, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 17, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 18, 2024
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01455683
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Florida Institute Of Technology INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 150 W University Blvd
Melbourne, FL 32901-8995
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N658FT, 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 Florida Institute Of Technology INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 17, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 18, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28020183 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N658FT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney M20J (serial 24-3270, cancelled March 3, 2006). 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]
2 NTSB records under N658FT: Accident on March 6, 2026 at Chuluota, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on February 3, 2003 at New Orleans, LA: minor 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-181 · operated under 091
An in-flight collision with a bird while enroute.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mooney M20J · operated under 091
The loss of engine power as a result of the separation of the magneto assembly due to inadequate maintenance by unknown personnel. A contributing factor was the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
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
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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