Piper PA-32R-301
N81481 is a Piper PA-32R-301, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Bci Aviation LLC, an LLC in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2005 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 25, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32R-301 · all PA-32R-301s and related versions
- Serial number
- 32R-8013049
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- AB1BC2 (octal 52615702)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 2005
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 25, 1980
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00020162
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bci Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 11711 Saint Michaels Dr
Dallas, TX 75230-2441
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N81481, 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 Bci Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 28, 2005, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 25, 1980, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32R-8013049 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N81481 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-99, cancelled November 24, 1964). 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]
1 NTSB record under N81481: Accident on October 17, 2024 at Van, TX: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32R-301 · operated under 091
The mechanic’s improper maintenance of the engine’s air induction scat duct, which collapsed during the flight and resulted in a loss of engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA018 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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