Piaggio P180
N146SL is a Piaggio P180, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Dodson International Parts INC, a corporation in Rantoul, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 27, 2020 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 3, 2004.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piaggio
- Model
- P180 · all P180s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium with composite partsA mostly aluminium airframe with composite parts where they save weight: control surfaces, fairings, the tail or the rotor blades. The Avanti: an aluminium fuselage with composite tail, forewing and fairings. This is how the Piaggio P180 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1091
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0BA95 (octal 50135225)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 27, 2020
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · December 3, 2004
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00137819
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dodson International Parts INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2155 Vermont Rd
Rantoul, KS 66079-9014
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N146SL links to the rest of the register
- Piaggio P180 50 registered
- Piaggio 68 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium with composite parts · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2,217 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Dodson International Parts INC 316 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to August 5, 2027
- Rantoul, KS 329 aircraft registered in this town
- Kansas 5,738 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piaggio P180 8 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Piaggio P180 4 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 8,208 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Pump, failed · 2012-09-09
- Report filed on this aircraft: Elevator, departed · 2012-07-28
- Report filed on this aircraft: Oil System, fluctuates · 2012-03-09
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The public federal record on N146SL, 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.
Valid registration to Dodson International Parts INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 27, 2020, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1091 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N146SL according to the deregistered file. [2]
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]
1 NTSB record under N146SL: Accident on July 28, 2012 at Henderson, NV: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piaggio P180 · operated under 135
The failure of maintenance personnel to properly torque the elevator attachment hardware in accordance with the maintenance manual, which led to the detachment of the elevator. Contributing to the accident were maintenance personnel's failure to identify the loose attachment hardware during a scheduled inspection, the flight crew's decision to continue the flight after identifying a flight control problem, and the flight crew's failure to perform an adequate preflight inspection at the intermediate airport.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data