Piper PA-28-181
N8262K 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 Hesston College, a corporation in Hesston, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 28, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 21, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8290165
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1982
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AB49CD (octal 52644715)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 28, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 28, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · July 21, 1982
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00563571
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hesston College
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 3000
Hesston, KS 67062-2093
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 2
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The public federal record on N8262K, 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 Hesston College, a corporation, certificate issued October 28, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 21, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8290165 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8262K was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Gulfstream-Schweizer A/C Corp GULFSTREAM AM G-164D (serial 10D, cancelled June 6, 1980); Stinson 108-1 (serial 108-1-1262, cancelled June 4, 1949). 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 N8262K: Accident on August 19, 1997 at Brickerville, PA: no 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
Fuel starvation as a result of the pilot performing a takeoff with the fuel selector in the 'OFF' position.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC97LA167 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