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N9500J

Piper PA-28-180

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesIowa

N9500J is a Piper PA-28-180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Midwest Air Freight LLC, an LLC in Sioux City, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 12, 2017 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 2, 1966.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-180 · all PA-28-180s and related versions
Serial number
28-3620
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1966
Cruising speed
107 mph
Transponder code
AD3708 (octal 53233410)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
September 12, 2017
Expires
September 30, 2027
Last FAA action
March 17, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 2, 1966
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00724660

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Midwest Air Freight LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
29515 340Th St
Sioux City, IA 51108-8725

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N9500J, 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 Midwest Air Freight LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 12, 2017, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 2, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-3620 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N9500J 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N9500J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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