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N8458H

Piper PA-28-181

Valid Iowa

N8458H 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 Mason City, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 8, 2002 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 22, 1981.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
Serial number
28-8290053
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
AB95E4 (octal 52712744)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 8, 2002
Expires
April 30, 2029
Last FAA action
July 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · September 22, 1981
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00842961

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gansemer William L
Type
Individual
Address
14 River Heights Dr
Mason City, IA 50401-4032

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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 N8458H, 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 Gansemer William L, an individual, certificate issued January 8, 2002, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 22, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8290053 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8458H 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

1 NTSB record under N8458H: Accident on December 15, 1985 at Dodgeville, WI: 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 1

CHI86LA049Accident on December 15, 1985 at Dodgeville, WI: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 288290053

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-181 · operated under 091

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 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