Piper PA-28-181
N972C is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Plainfield Aviation INC, a corporation in Plainfield, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 11, 2012 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 22, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2843538
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2002
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AD8B45 (octal 53305505)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 11, 2012
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 22, 2002
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00013049
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Plainfield Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 24112 Merlot Ln
Plainfield, IL 60586-7202
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N972C, 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 Plainfield Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 11, 2012, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 22, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2843538 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N972C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson 108-3 (serial 108-3972, cancelled September 13, 1954). 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]
1 NTSB record under N972C: Accident on May 11, 1989 at San Diego, CA: serious injuries. 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Airbus Industrie A-300-B4-203 · operated under 121
AN UNEXPECTED ENCOUNTER WITH CLEAR AIR TURBULENCE WHICH SERIOUSLY INJURED A PASSENGER IN THE AFT LAVATORY.
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