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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper Aircraft Inc
- Model
- PA-44-180 · all PA-44-180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4496476
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming O-360-A1H6 · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- A26DC9 (octal 50466711)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 4, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 4, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 6, 2019
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01299100
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alf Ix LLC
- Type
- LLC
- 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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL84LA260 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data