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N9285J

Piper PA-28-180

N9285J is a Piper PA-28-180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lexington, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 27, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 24, 1966.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-180 · all PA-28-180s and related versions
Serial number
28-3369
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
107 mph
Transponder code
ACDEF2 (octal 53157362)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 27, 2024
Expires
August 31, 2031
Last FAA action
August 27, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · May 24, 1966
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00410591

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cope Jarret C
Type
Individual
Address
525 N County Home Rd
Lexington, NC 27292

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N9285J, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Cope Jarret C, an individual, certificate issued August 27, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-3369 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N9285J according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N9285J: Accident on September 18, 2007 at Bridgeport, CT: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

NYC07CA240Accident on September 18, 2007 at Bridgeport, CT: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-180 · operated under 091

The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during the landing. Contributing was the crosswind weather condition.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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