Piper PA-28-181
N8257G 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 Draco Flight School INC, a corporation in Chino, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 23, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 31, 1982.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe 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
- 28-8290162
- 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 O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AB46C2 (octal 52643302)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 23, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 23, 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 · August 31, 1982
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00573621
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Draco Flight School INC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7000 Merril Ave Ste 33
Chino, CA 91710
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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 2
Connections how N8257G links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 18,620 registered
- Piper 44,839 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360 series 1,070 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Draco Flight School INC 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Chino, CA 178 aircraft registered in this town
- Chino Airport · CNO
- California 28,279 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 90 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 3,272 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 697 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-360 series 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360 series 426 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N8257G, 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 Draco Flight School INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 23, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 31, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8290162 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8257G was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-181 (serial 28-8190018, cancelled October 7, 1980); Cessna A188B (serial 18801270T, cancelled August 1, 1973). 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 N8257G. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data