Piper PA-28-180
N9494J 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 Montgomery, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 15, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 15, 1966.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-180 · all PA-28-180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-3613
- 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
- AD3184 (octal 53230604)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 15, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 15, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 15, 1966
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00064700
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ruiz Serge
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 926 Bentwater Dr
Montgomery, TX 77356-8273
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N9494J, 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 Ruiz Serge, an individual, certificate issued May 15, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-3613 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9494J 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]
2 NTSB records under N9494J: Accident on May 2, 2018 at Pine Spring, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on December 11, 1987 at Richmond Hts, OH: serious injuries, substantial damage. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA28 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain adequate altitude while flying over mountainous terrain in turbulent wind conditions at night, which resulted in a tree strike.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-180 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data