Piper PA-28-236
N81406 is a Piper PA-28-236, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Dorgate LLC, an LLC in Charles City, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2000 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 19, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-236 · all PA-28-236s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8211028
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- AB1AAF (octal 52615257)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 17, 2000
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 19, 1983
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00063452
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dorgate LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 803 Ellis Dr
Charles City, IA 50616-3028
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N81406, 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 Dorgate LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 17, 2000, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 19, 1983, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8211028 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N81406 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-24, cancelled October 12, 1955). 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 N81406. 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