Piper PA-28-180
N9653J 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 Clear Sky LLC, an LLC in La Grange Park, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 2001 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 11, 1967.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-180 · all PA-28-180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-3818
- 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
- AD7183 (octal 53270603)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 8, 2001
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 11, 1967
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00644230
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Clear Sky LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1422 Homestead Rd
La Grange Park, IL 60526-1167
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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 N9653J, 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 Clear Sky LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 8, 2001, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 11, 1967, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-3818 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9653J 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 N9653J: Accident on July 17, 1999 at Butler, MO: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 19, 1985 at Bakersfield, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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 PA-28-180 · operated under 091
loss of engine power for undetermined reason, and the pilot's inability to maintain clearance from the fence during the forced landing. Factors relating to this accident were the rising terrain, the rough/uneven terrain, and the fence posts.
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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
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