Piper PA-44-180
N2127D is a Piper PA-44-180, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Metro Aircraft CO, a corporation in Bloomington, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 7, 2002 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 10, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-44-180 · all PA-44-180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 447995131
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A1C441 (octal 50342101)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 7, 2002
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- February 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 10, 1978
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00191402
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Metro Aircraft CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1600 W 82Nd St Ste 100
Bloomington, MN 55431-1411
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N2127D, 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 Metro Aircraft CO, a corporation, certificate issued February 7, 2002, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 10, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 447995131 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2127D 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 N2127D: Accident on November 26, 1994 at Dickinson, ND: 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 FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR (CFI) MISJUDGED THE FLARE, WHICH RESULTED IN A HARD LANDING. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE ADVERSE WEATHER (ICING) CONDITION, STRUCTURAL ICE, WINDSHIELD ICE, DARKNESS, AND THE LACK OF VISUAL CUES FOR THE PILOT TO LAND.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI95LA046 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data