Piper PA-28-181
N8448A is a Piper PA-28-181, 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 Saint Augustine, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 15, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 15, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8290037
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AB9226 (octal 52711046)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 15, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 15, 1981
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00373001
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hughes Patrick J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 73 M L King Ave
Saint Augustine, FL 32084-4830
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N8448A, 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 Hughes Patrick J, an individual, certificate issued July 15, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 15, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8290037 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8448A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech A35 (serial D-1866, cancelled July 17, 1950). 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 N8448A. 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