Piper PA-28-181
N9257C is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Acorn Aviation LLC, an LLC in Saint Charles, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 18, 2013 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 23, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7890395
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- ACD40D (octal 53152015)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 18, 2013
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 23, 1978
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00270681
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Acorn Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7N435 Ridge Line Rd
Saint Charles, IL 60175-6617
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
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The public federal record on N9257C, 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 Acorn Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 18, 2013, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 23, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7890395 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9257C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180 (serial 31356, cancelled February 2, 1955). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9257C. 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 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