Piper PA-44-180
N159WM is a Piper PA-44-180, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Fixed Wing Holding CO INC, a non-citizen corporation in Pembroke Pines, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 27, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 19, 2008.
Where is it now Last seen today at 3:29 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-44-180 · all PA-44-180s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-44 Seminole 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
- 4496159
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A0ED9E (octal 50166636)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 27, 2026
- Expires
- October 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 27, 2026
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 19, 2008
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00134197
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fixed Wing Holding CO INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporationFAA type of owner code 8 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1601 SW 75Th Ave
Pembroke Pines, FL 33023-2585
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.
Connections how N159WM links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-44 Seminole 603 registered
- Piper 44,842 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360 / VO-360 series 11,931 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Fixed Wing Holding CO INC 10 aircraft in the fleet
- Pembroke Pines, FL 146 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,702 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-44 Seminole 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-44 Seminole 903 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-44 Seminole 232 supplemental type certificates
- Where N159WM is now · Last seen today at 3:29 pm.
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The public federal record on N159WM, 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 Fixed Wing Holding CO INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued October 27, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 19, 2008, 6 years after the 2002 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4496159 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N159WM 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 N159WM: Accident on June 8, 2008 at Battle Creek, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-44-180 · operated under 091
The in-flight separation of the tip of a propeller blade due to metal fatigue that resulted from an inadequate inspection and repair.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data