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N9533J

Piper PA-28-180

N9533J 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 an individual in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 24, 2002 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 21, 1966.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-180 · all PA-28-180s and related versions
Serial number
28-3660
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1966
Cruising speed
107 mph
Transponder code
AD4296 (octal 53241226)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 24, 2002
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · September 21, 1966
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00624490

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wadel Ronald A
Type
Individual
Address
14988 Burnt Mill Rd
Shippensburg, PA 17257-9109

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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 · 4 clear

The public federal record on N9533J, 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 Wadel Ronald A, an individual, certificate issued April 24, 2002, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 21, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-3660 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N9533J 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 N9533J: Accident on August 19, 1993 at Showlow, AZ: 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

LAX93LA330Accident on August 19, 1993 at Showlow, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 28-3683

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

A total loss of engine power due to a separation of the mixture control balljoint assembly at the carburetor mixture arm and subsequent forced landing.

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