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Who Owns This Plane?

N87W

1999 Piper PA-28-181

Fixed-wing, single engine · serial 2843296

Valid registration

Registered with the FAA until Apr 30, 2033.

Registered owner

Altitude Aviation LLC

Owner type: LLC
Address: 1165 Bradford Mountain Rd, Lenoir, NC 28645
Fleet: 6 aircraft registered to this owner

Aircraft

Make and model: Piper PA-28-181
Year built: 1999
Serial number: 2843296
Type: Fixed-wing, single engine · Land
Engines: 1 × Piston · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
Seats: 4
Weight class: Up to 12,499 lb
Certification: Type certificated · Standard airworthiness (issued Nov 15, 1999)
Mode S code: ABF5F1 (the transponder's ICAO address, used by ADS-B flight trackers)
Registered since: Apr 7, 2026 · last FAA action Apr 7, 2026

Past registrations of N87W

N-numbers are reused. Each line is an earlier registration, ending on the date the FAA canceled it.

Jul 15, 1997 Whiting CASSUTT · serial 001 Whiting Stanley E · Blue Springs, MO

What a Piper Cherokee looks likePhoto of a Piper Cherokee, not this aircraft: Mike Burdett, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Where is it now?

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