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Piper PA-28-181
N772CA 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 Christiansen Aviation LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 11, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 24, 2024.
Where is it now Last seen Tuesday at 5:03 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe 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
- 2881740
- 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 · Lycoming IO-360-B4A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2024
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AA70A8 (octal 52470250)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 11, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 30, 2025
- 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 · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 24, 2024
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01446913
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Christiansen Aviation LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- Mailboxes Etc #1710
2207 Concord Pike
Wilmington, DE 19803-2973
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
Connections how N772CA links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 18,636 registered
- Piper 44,847 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360-B4A 985 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Christiansen Aviation LLC 321 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to April 16, 2027
- Wilmington, DE 7,373 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,952 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 90 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 3,267 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 697 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360-B4A 32 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360-B4A 64 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Seal, defective · 1996-07-04
- Report filed on this aircraft: Skin, corroded · 1995-03-28
- Report filed on this aircraft: Aileron, corroded · 1995-03-28
- Where N772CA is now · Last seen Tuesday at 5:03 pm.
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The public federal record on N772CA, 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 Christiansen Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 11, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 24, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2881740 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N772CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-8-62 (serial 46131, cancelled August 8, 2013). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N772CA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data