Piaggio P180
N17PA is a Piaggio P180, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Sailfin Partners LLC, an LLC in Southfield, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 16, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 6, 2000. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Where is it now Last seen October 7 at 1:20 pm.
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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
- 1017
- 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 Canada PT6A-6 SERIES · 950 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A1181A (octal 50214032)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 16, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 16, 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 · May 6, 2000
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00673932
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sailfin Partners LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 27777 Franklin Rd Ste 2500
Southfield, MI 48034-8222
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 1
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N17PA 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 Canada PT6A-6 series 170 aircraft with this engine series · 950 hp
- Sailfin Partners LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Southfield, MI 25 aircraft registered in this town
- Michigan 7,217 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piaggio P180 8 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Piaggio P180 4 supplemental type certificates
- Where N17PA is now · Last seen October 7 at 1:20 pm.
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The public federal record on N17PA, 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 Sailfin Partners LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 16, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N17PA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-31-325 (serial 31-8012016, cancelled May 28, 1997); Cessna 150H (serial 15068899, cancelled March 27, 1995). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 22, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N17PA: Accident on January 16, 2007 at Eagle, CO: 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: Piaggio Industrie P180 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during the landing roll.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data