Piper PA-28-181
N9720C is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Indianapolis, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 29, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 27, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-7890440
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AD8D6E (octal 53306556)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 29, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 29, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 27, 1978
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00644030
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cooper Richard W Trustee
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9442 Colony Pointe West Dr
Indianapolis, IN 46250-4446
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N9720C, 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 Cooper Richard W Trustee, an individual, certificate issued September 29, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 27, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-7890440 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9720C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed 1049G (serial 4578G, cancelled June 24, 1970). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9720C. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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 August 27, 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