Piper PA-44-180
N278AG is a Piper PA-44-180, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2020. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Epic Aviation INC, a corporation in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 28, 2020.
Where is it now Last seen October 14 at 12:06 pm.
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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
- 4496506
- 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
- 2020
- Transponder code
- A2C43B (octal 50542073)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 3, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 3, 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 · July 28, 2020
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01321429
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Epic Aviation INC
- 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
- 600 Skyline Dr
New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168-5948
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 N278AG links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-44 Seminole 600 registered
- Piper 44,847 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
- Epic Aviation INC 65 aircraft in the fleet
- New Smyrna Beach, FL 158 aircraft registered in this town
- New Smyrna Beach Municipal (Jack Bolt Field) · EVB
- Massey Ranch Airpark · X50
- Florida 21,706 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
- Report filed on this aircraft: Muffler, cracked · 2024-03-13
- Where N278AG is now · Last seen October 14 at 12:06 pm.
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The public federal record on N278AG, 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 Epic Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 3, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 28, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4496506 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N278AG 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 N278AG. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data