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N8473W

Piper PA-28-180

N8473W is a Piper PA-28-180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Simsbury Aviation Services LLC, an LLC in Simsbury, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 28, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 23, 1965.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-180 · all PA-28-180s and related versions
Serial number
28-2715
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
107 mph
Transponder code
AB9CB0 (octal 52716260)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 28, 2024
Expires
June 30, 2031
Last FAA action
June 28, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · August 23, 1965
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00712911

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Simsbury Aviation Services LLC
Type
LLC
Address
94 Wolcott Rd
Simsbury, CT 06070-1416

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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 · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8473W, 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 Simsbury Aviation Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 28, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-2715 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8473W 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8473W. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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