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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of September 25, 2026
N856PU

Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181

Valid Indiana

N856PU is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Trustees Of Purdue University, a government body in West Lafayette, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2020 and expires on June 30, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper Aircraft Inc
Model
PA-28-181
Serial number
2881329
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
ABBEFA (octal 52737372)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 4, 2020
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01314529

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Trustees Of Purdue University
Type
Government
Address
1581 Aviation Dr (Hgr6)
Attn Chief Inspector
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2001

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