Piper PA-28-181
N91079 is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1985. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Carmi, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 11, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 13, 1985.
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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
- 28-8690024
- 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
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1985
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AC9A1A (octal 53115032)
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 11, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 11, 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 · December 13, 1985
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00691646
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gholson Travis R
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 520 Tar Spring Dr
Carmi, IL 62821-1737
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N91079 links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 18,618 registered
- Piper 44,837 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 11,931 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Carmi, IL 9 aircraft registered in this town
- Carmi Municipal · CUL
- Illinois 8,061 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
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The public federal record on N91079, 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 Gholson Travis R, an individual, certificate issued June 11, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 13, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8690024 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N91079 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N91079. 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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data