Piper PA-28-181
N8172Q is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Frost Aviation Services INC, a corporation in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 4, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 22, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8090263
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AB260A (octal 52623012)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 4, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 29, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 22, 1980
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00350072
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Frost Aviation Services INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2505 Clearview Dr
Las Cruces, NM 88011
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 N8172Q, 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 Frost Aviation Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 4, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 22, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8090263 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8172Q was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 414 (serial 414-0072, cancelled May 1, 1972). 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 N8172Q. 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