Piper PA-44-180
N3020M is a Piper PA-44-180, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Wifa (Washington International Flight Academy) LLC, an LLC in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 22, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-44-180 · all PA-44-180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 44-7995220
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A32924 (octal 50624444)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 12, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 22, 1965
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00151093
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wifa (Washington International Flight Academy) LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7940 Airpark Rd
Gaithersburg, MD 20879-4176
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3020M, 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 Wifa (Washington International Flight Academy) LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 12, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 22, 1965, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 44-7995220 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3020M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-12 (serial 12-1575, cancelled December 17, 1974). 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]
2 NTSB records under N3020M: Accident on June 9, 2017 at Gaithersburg, MD: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 26, 2011 at Gaithersburg, MD: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA 44-180 · operated under 091
The failure of the right main landing gear trunnion bracket due to an undetermined overstress event.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA17LA204 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-44-180 · operated under 091
The pilot's decision to continue taxiing with restricted windshield visibility.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA11CA486 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