{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2002-01-18","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-07-07","city":"ST GEORGE","country_code":"US","county_code":"053","cruise_speed_mph":105,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41575","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O-360 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-07-07","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7102807","mode_s_code":"50566371","mode_s_hex":"A2ECF9","model":"PA-28-181","n_number":"N288PA","name":"SKYWEST LEASING INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Gila Bend","damage":"SUBS","date":"2017-03-12","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"GAA17CA189","probable_cause":"The flight instructor\u2019s failure to review the notices to airmen related to the airport, which resulted in his landing on a closed runway and the airplane striking runway closed markers.","registration":"N288PA","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on March 12, 2017 at Gila Bend, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Phoenix","damage":"SUBS","date":"2003-07-07","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX03LA228","probable_cause":"The disengagement of the left control wheel from the control column, which was due to the attaching screw backing out of the nut plate.   Also causal was the manufacturer's inadequate design of the installation and the improper length of the screw.","registration":"N288PA","state":"AZ","summary":"Accident on July 7, 2003 at Phoenix, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N288PA 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 Skywest Leasing INC, a corporation in St George, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 7, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 18, 2002.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Skywest Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 7, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 18, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2843502 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N288PA according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"2 NTSB records under N288PA: Accident on March 12, 2017 at Gila Bend, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 7, 2003 at Phoenix, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":4,"serial_number":"2843502","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"UT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"444 S RIVER RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00034007","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N288PA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2002,"zip":"847902085"}