Piper PA-28-180
N8883J is a Piper PA-28-180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Midlothian, Texas. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 15, 1965. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-180 · all PA-28-180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-2857
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 107 mph
- Transponder code
- AC3E57 (octal 53037127)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- July 14, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 15, 1965
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00251801
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2920 Falcon Way
Midlothian, TX 76065-4709
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N8883J, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 15, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-2857 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8883J according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 3, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8883J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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 September 30, 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