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N8194J

Piper PA-28-161

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMaryland

N8194J is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Tipton Aero Shares LLC, an LLC in Fort Meade, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 8, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 24, 1982.

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
28-8216142
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1982
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
AB2DB8 (octal 52626670)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
February 8, 2024
Expires
February 28, 2031
Last FAA action
February 8, 2024
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 24, 1982
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00570962

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Tipton Aero Shares LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
7509 General Aviation Dr Ste 107
Fort Meade, MD 20755-1804

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1972-03-29Bell 205A-1 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Connections how N8194J links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Fort Meade, MD 4 aircraft registered in this town
  • Maryland 2,344 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N8194J, 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 Tipton Aero Shares LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 8, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 24, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8216142 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8194J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 205A-1 (serial 30095, cancelled March 29, 1972). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8194J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data