Piper PA-28-181
N897G is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2018. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Archer Flight LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 20, 2018 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 18, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2881072
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A4M · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2018
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AC5FEB (octal 53057753)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 20, 2018
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 18, 2018
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01284203
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Archer Flight LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 251 Little Falls Dr
Wilmington, DE 19808-1674
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N897G, 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 Archer Flight LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 20, 2018, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 18, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2881072 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N897G was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hartline John Bon GLASTAR (serial 8-5245, cancelled May 2, 2003). 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 N897G: Accident on April 13, 2000 at Woodstock, AL: serious 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: Hartline GLASTAR · operated under 091
a total engine failure for undetermined reason, resulting in a forced landing and subsequent impact with a tree.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA00LA132 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