Piper PA-28R-201
N972LT is a Piper PA-28R-201, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2017. It has 4 seats. It is registered to University Of La System DBA, a government body in Ruston, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 27, 2017 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 29, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28R-201 · all PA-28R-201s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2844172
- 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 IO-360-C1C6 · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2017
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- AD8C1F (octal 53306037)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 27, 2017
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- November 13, 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 · November 29, 2017
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01264083
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- University Of La System DBA
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 807 Hergot Ave #3181
Ruston, LA 71272-0001 - Co-owners
- Louisiana Tech University / Dept Of Professional Aviation
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 N972LT, 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 University Of La System DBA, a government body, certificate issued December 27, 2017, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 29, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2844172 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N972LT 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N972LT. 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 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