Piper PA-28-181
N916PA is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Skywest Leasing INC, a corporation in St George, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 7, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 8, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2843305
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1999
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- ACAE3B (octal 53127073)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 7, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 8, 1999
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00875882
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Skywest Leasing INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 444 S River Rd
St George, UT 84790-2085
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N916PA, 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 Skywest Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 7, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 8, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2843305 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N916PA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech E-90 (serial LW313, cancelled March 25, 1997). 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 N916PA: Accident on June 10, 1996 at Woolwich, ME: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Beech E90 · operated under 091
failure of the pilot to maintain control of the airplane while climbing after takeoff, due to spatial disorientation, which resulted in an uncontrolled descent and subsequent collision with terrain. Factors relating to the accident were: the improper refueling (servicing of the aircraft) by FBO personnel, and failure of the pilot to note the excessive lateral imbalance of the airplane during preflight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC96FA123 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