The U.S. aircraft register, updated daily
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 2, 2026
N1221K

Piper PA-44-180

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesDelaware

N1221K is a Piper PA-44-180, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Airline Transport Professionals CORP Of USA, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2002 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
Model
PA-44-180 · all PA-44-180s and related versions
Serial number
44-7995295
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A05DA5 (octal 50056645)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
May 17, 2002
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00703705

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Airline Transport Professionals CORP Of USA
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
251 Little Falls Dr
Wilmington, DE 19808-1674

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1995-08-11Piper PA 46-350P · exported to Germany · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N1221K, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Airline Transport Professionals CORP Of USA, a corporation, certificate issued May 17, 2002, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 44-7995295 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1221K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA 46-350P (serial 4622148, cancelled August 11, 1995). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N1221K: Accident on December 11, 2016 at Jacksonville, FL: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

GAA17CA097Accident on December 11, 2016 at Jacksonville, FL: no injuries, minor damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA 44 · operated under 091

The other pilot’s failure to see and avoid the stationary airplane during taxi.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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.

Request the full report for N1221KWhat the full report adds

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data