Piper PA-28RT-201
N81898 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 Rock Springs, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 6, 2020 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 24, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28RT-201 · all PA-28RT-201s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28R-8018064
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- AB2AC8 (octal 52625310)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 6, 2020
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 24, 1980
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00440042
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Zanetti James D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1007 Highland Way
Rock Springs, WY 82901-5823
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 N81898, 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 Zanetti James D, an individual, certificate issued October 6, 2020, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 24, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28R-8018064 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N81898 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC521, cancelled June 23, 1965). 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 N81898: Accident on May 8, 2004 at Dekalb, IL: no 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-28RT-201 · operated under 091
The failure of the pilot and his flight instructor to identify the location of the relocated threshold and proper touchdown point, which resulted in the airplane striking the construction barricade while on approach. A factor to the accident was the construction barricade.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI04CA117 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