Piper PA-28-181
N8203D is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Vans Holding LLC, an LLC in Canton, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 17, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 1, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8290120
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AB33A0 (octal 52631640)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 17, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- January 26, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 1, 1982
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00003731
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vans Holding LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2223 Fulton Rd NW Ste 107
Canton, OH 44709-3554
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 N8203D, 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 Vans Holding LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 17, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 1, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8290120 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8203D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech H35 (serial D5315, cancelled November 13, 1967). 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 N8203D: Accident on July 9, 1985 at Austin, TX: minor 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-28-181 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW85LA278 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