Piper PA-31T
N181DC is a Piper PA-31T, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Alliance Air Parts Acquisitions CORP, a non-citizen corporation in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The FAA lists the registration as "non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports" (certificate issued May 12, 2025). It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 14, 1990.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-31T · all PA-31Ts 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-31 Navajo and Chieftain 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
- 31T-7520026
- 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
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 162 mph
- Transponder code
- A144B1 (octal 50242261)
Registration
- Status
- Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reportsFAA registration status code N (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 12, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 11, 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 · August 14, 1990
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00905371
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alliance Air Parts Acquisitions CORP
- 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
- PO Box 950640
Oklahoma City, OK 73195-0640
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 N181DC links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain 934 registered
- Piper 44,844 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Alliance Air Parts Acquisitions CORP 28 aircraft in the fleet
- Oklahoma City, OK 1,091 aircraft registered in this town
- Okc Will Rogers International · OKC
- Wiley Post Airport · PWA
- Clarence E Page Municipal · RCE
- Sundance Airport · HSD
- Oklahoma 5,643 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain 114 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain 3,365 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain 535 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N181DC, 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.
Registration status is "Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [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 31T-7520026 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N181DC 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N181DC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data