Piper PA-28-181
N6897C is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Naperville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 11, 2006 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 21, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7890384
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A927F6 (octal 52223766)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 11, 2006
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 21, 1978
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00870217
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schumann Donald A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 9S111 Skylane Dr
Naperville, IL 60564-9450 - Co-owners
- Schumann Martha G
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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 N6897C, 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 Schumann Donald A, a co-owned, certificate issued August 11, 2006, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 21, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7890384 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6897C 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 N6897C: Accident on June 26, 1985 at Kankakee, IL: no 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-181 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI85LA255 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