Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181
N731AC is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2021. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Atp Aircraft 9 LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 10, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 22, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper Aircraft Inc
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2881495
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A4M · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A9CEC5 (octal 52347305)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 10, 2022
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 22, 2021
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01348513
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Atp Aircraft 9 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 251 Little Falls Dr
Wilmington, DE 19808-1674
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N731AC, 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 Atp Aircraft 9 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 10, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 22, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2881495 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N731AC was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Swearingen SA226TC (serial TC-255, cancelled August 5, 2013); Cessna A188B (serial 18802736T, cancelled July 2, 1985). 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 N731AC: Accident on November 9, 2000 at Fort Wayne, IN: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Accident on July 12, 1983 at Shelton, NE: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Swearingen SA226TC · operated under 135
The indicated failure of the right hand AC bus during takeoff with low ceiling. The factors were the low ceiling, night, and the execssive workload the pilot experienced on takeoff with an electrical failure without a second in command.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI01FA032 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 188B · operated under 137
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC83FA153 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data