Piper PA-28-181
N8059R is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Travel Express Aviation LLC, an LLC in West Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 21, 2000 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 10, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8290081
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AAF813 (octal 52574023)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 21, 2000
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 10, 1981
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00950742
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Travel Express Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 31W775 North Ave
West Chicago, IL 60185-6402
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N8059R, 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 Travel Express Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 21, 2000, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 10, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8290081 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8059R was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna R182 (serial R18200737, cancelled March 18, 1981); Bensen B-8M (serial GD-1, cancelled October 30, 1970). 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 N8059R. 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 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