Piper Aircraft Inc PA-44-180
N256AA is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA-44-180, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Alf Ix LLC, an LLC in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 4, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 6, 2019.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper Aircraft Inc
- 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
- 4496476
- 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-360-A1H6 · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- A26DC9 (octal 50466711)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 4, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 4, 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 6, 2019
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01299100
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alf Ix 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
- 70 W Madison St Ste 2200
Chicago, IL 60602-4383
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N256AA links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-44 Seminole 602 registered
- Piper Aircraft Inc 1,444 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360-A1H6 106 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Alf Ix LLC 28 aircraft in the fleet
- Chicago, IL 1,561 aircraft registered in this town
- Chicago Midway International · MDW
- Chicago O'Hare International · ORD
- Lansing Municipal · IGQ
- Illinois 8,050 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-44 Seminole 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-44 Seminole 902 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-44 Seminole 232 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-360-A1H6 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360-A1H6 169 reports since 1995
- Where N256AA is now · Last seen yesterday at 5:03 pm.
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The public federal record on N256AA, 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 Alf Ix LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 4, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 6, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4496476 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N256AA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 421 (serial 421-0118, cancelled March 7, 2006); Beech J35 (serial D5587, cancelled June 7, 1989). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N256AA: Accident on August 18, 1984 at Chesapeake, VA: 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: Beech J35 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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