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N8442A

Piper PA-28-236

Valid Texas

N8442A is a Piper PA-28-236, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in League City, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 27, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 20, 1981.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-236 · all PA-28-236s and related versions
Serial number
28-8211006
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1981
Transponder code
AB9154 (octal 52710524)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 27, 2024
Expires
April 30, 2031
Last FAA action
April 27, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · August 20, 1981
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00473011

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Dillehay David
Type
Individual
Address
416 Seaborough Ln
League City, TX 77573-9018

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8442A, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Dillehay David, an individual, certificate issued April 27, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated August 20, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8211006 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8442A according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

2 NTSB records under N8442A: Accident on May 19, 2002 at Angola, IN: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 1, 1990 at S. Lake Tahoe, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 2

CHI02LA137Accident on May 19, 2002 at Angola, IN: minor injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-236 · operated under 091

The loss of engine power for undetermined reasons. A factor to the accident was the soft terrain condition.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

LAX90LA255Accident on July 1, 1990 at S. Lake Tahoe, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 8211006

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA28-236 · operated under 091

THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CLEARANCE BETWEEN THE AIRCRAFT AND AN OBSTRUCTION ALONG HIS GROUND TAXI ROUTE. OBSTRUCTIONS ALONG THE ROUTE AND A FENCE CONSTRUCTED NEAR THE RAMP ARE FACTORS IN THE ACCIDENT.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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