Piper PA-28-181
N8787C is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Brolan Aviation LLC, an LLC in Kansas City, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 27, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7690165
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AC175E (octal 53013536)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 27, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 27, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00782061
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Brolan Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5140 Walnut St
Kansas City, MO 64112-2743
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 · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8787C, 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 Brolan Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 27, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7690165 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8787C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-18A (serial 18-3255, cancelled September 13, 1954). 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]
1 NTSB record under N8787C: Accident on August 17, 1986 at Galesburg, IL: no 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI86LA207 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
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