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N8045W

Piper PA-28-180

Valid Iowa

N8045W is a Piper PA-28-180, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Open Engineering LLC, an LLC in Ames, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 29, 1965.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-180
Serial number
28-2919
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1965
Cruising speed
107 mph
Transponder code
AAF3D5 (octal 52571725)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 12, 2021
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · November 29, 1965
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00160572

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Open Engineering LLC
Type
LLC
Address
1318 Kellogg Ave
Ames, IA 50010-5445

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.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data