Piper PA-28-180
N81DG is a Piper PA-28-180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Spotsylvania, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 2016 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 26, 1967.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-180 · all PA-28-180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-4579
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 107 mph
- Transponder code
- AB0755 (octal 52603525)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 19, 2016
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 26, 1967
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00082595
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rae Seth R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10512 Aspen Highlands Dr
Spotsylvania, VA 22553-4501
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 N81DG, 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 Rae Seth R, an individual, certificate issued March 19, 2016, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 26, 1967, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-4579 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N81DG was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grundfest Dave Jr CHRISTEN EAGLE II (serial GRUNDFEST0001, cancelled April 18, 1991). 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 N81DG: Accident on July 5, 1987 at Snowmass, CO: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Christian EAGLE II · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN87LA170 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