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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8290162
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AB46C2 (octal 52643302)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 23, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 23, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 31, 1982
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00573621
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Draco Flight School INC
- Type
- Corporation
- 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
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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 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