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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N8870J

Piper PA-28-180

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesSouth Carolina

N8870J 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 Asel LLC, an LLC in North Charleston, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 28, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 28, 1965.

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-180 · all PA-28-180s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
28-2842
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
107 mph
Transponder code
AC3A37 (octal 53035067)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
June 28, 2021
Expires
June 30, 2028
Last FAA action
September 29, 2026
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 28, 1965
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00901831

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Asel LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
4447 Hope'S Cir
North Charleston, SC 29405

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N8870J links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
  • Asel LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
Place
  • North Charleston, SC 49 aircraft registered in this town
  • South Carolina 3,113 aircraft registered
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Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8870J, 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 Asel LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 28, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. 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 28-2842 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8870J 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 N8870J. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data