Piper PA-28-180
N8872J 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 Priority Aviation LLC, an LLC in Lewes, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 2, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-180 · all PA-28-180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-2844
- 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
- AC3A7D (octal 53035175)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 21, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 21, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 2, 1965
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00551811
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Priority Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 16192 Coastal Hwy
Lewes, DE 19958-3608
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.
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The public federal record on N8872J, 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 Priority Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 21, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-2844 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8872J according to the deregistered file. [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 N8872J: Accident on May 25, 1997 at Houghton, MI: 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-28-180 · operated under 091
the pilot's improper starting procedures and failure to set the parking brakes.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI97LA148 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data