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N81529

Piper PA-28RT-201

N81529 is a Piper PA-28RT-201, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in East Lyme, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 2003 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 30, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28RT-201 · all PA-28RT-201s and related versions
Serial number
28R-8018036
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1980
Transponder code
AB1EAF (octal 52617257)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 31, 2003
Expires
April 30, 2029
Last FAA action
July 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · January 30, 1980
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00630162

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gobeli Michael T
Type
Individual
Address
15 Winthrop Dr
East Lyme, CT 06333-1033

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

1955-10-12Aeronca 7AC · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N81529, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Gobeli Michael T, an individual, certificate issued January 31, 2003, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated January 30, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28R-8018036 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N81529 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-148, cancelled October 12, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N81529: Accident on May 2, 1993 at Willimantic, CT: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

BFO93LA067Accident on May 2, 1993 at Willimantic, CT: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28RT-201 · operated under 091

FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO FOLLOW EMERGENCY PROCEDURES TO ENSURE THAT THE GEAR WAS LOCKED. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE TOTAL ELECTRICAL FAILURE AND THE CONSTRUCTION SITE LOCATED BESIDE THE RUNWAY.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO93LA067 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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