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.
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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
- 447995131
- 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
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A1C441 (octal 50342101)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 7, 2002
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- February 28, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 10, 1978
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00191402
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Metro Aircraft CO
- 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
- 1600 W 82Nd St Ste 100
Bloomington, MN 55431-1411
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 N2127D links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-44 Seminole 603 registered
- Piper 44,840 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 11,929 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Metro Aircraft CO 12 aircraft in the fleet
- Bloomington, MN 55 aircraft registered in this town
- Minnesota 6,953 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
- Report filed on this aircraft: Sump Plug, missing · 1996-03-18
- Where N2127D is now · Last seen today at 4:50 pm.
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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]
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data