Piper PA-28-181
N8274H is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Thunderbird Aircraft CO, a corporation in Bloomington, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 12, 2002 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 22, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8190052
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AB4DC8 (octal 52646710)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 12, 2002
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 22, 1980
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00123541
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thunderbird Aircraft CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1600 W 82Nd St Ste 100
Bloomington, MN 55431-1411
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N8274H, 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 Thunderbird Aircraft CO, a corporation, certificate issued June 12, 2002, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 22, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8190052 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8274H according to the deregistered file. [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 N8274H: Accident on November 28, 2023 at Minneapolis, MN: 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
Loss of engine power due to fuel starvation that was the result of a leaking fuel drain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24LA050 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data