Piper PA-28-180
N8138W is a Piper PA-28-180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sky Air INC, a corporation in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2016 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 17, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-180 · all PA-28-180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-2251
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 107 mph
- Transponder code
- AB1806 (octal 52614006)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 24, 2016
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 17, 1965
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00220232
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sky Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 8448 Milburn Rd NE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52411
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N8138W, 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 Sky Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 24, 2016, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 17, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-2251 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8138W 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 N8138W. 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