New Piper PA-28-161
N780U is a New Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Ohio University, a government body in Albany, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 1, 2005 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 19, 2005.
Where is it now Last seen Saturday at 10:03 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- New Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s 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
- 2842232
- 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 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- AA9248 (octal 52511110)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 1, 2005
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- 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 19, 2005
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00157709
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ohio University (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 751 Columbia Rd
Albany, OH 45710-9220 - Co-owners
- Department of Aviation
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.
Connections how N780U links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 18,639 registered
- New Piper 24 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-320 series 27,311 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Ohio University 24 aircraft in the fleet
- Albany, OH 28 aircraft registered in this town
- Ohio 8,529 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 3,269 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 697 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Impulse Coupling, loose · 2023-08-31
- Where N780U is now · Last seen Saturday at 10:03 am.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N780U.json.
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The public federal record on N780U, 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 Ohio University, a government body, certificate issued June 1, 2005, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 19, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2842232 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N780U 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N780U. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data