Piper PA-28-181
N898DA is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Nopat LLC, an LLC in North Charleston, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 8, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 15, 2000. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 5:22 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe 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
- 2843377
- 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
- 2000
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AC6358 (octal 53061530)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 8, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 8, 2025
- 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 · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 15, 2000
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00973655
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nopat 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
- 3012 Harris Mill Dr
North Charleston, SC 29420-8427
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
Connections how N898DA links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 18,639 registered
- Piper 44,848 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360 / VO-360 series 11,930 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Nopat LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to November 24, 2026
- North Charleston, SC 49 aircraft registered in this town
- South Carolina 3,113 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 90 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 3,269 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 697 supplemental type certificates
- Where N898DA is now · Last seen October 15 at 5:22 pm.
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The public federal record on N898DA, 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 Nopat LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 8, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 15, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2843377 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N898DA according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 14, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N898DA. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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