Piper PA-44-180
N30521 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 an individual in New Bern, North Carolina. The FAA lists the registration as "sale reported, pending cancellation". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 4, 1978. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-44-180 · all PA-44-180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 44-7995076
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A3349D (octal 50632235)
Registration
- Status
- Sale reported, pending cancellation
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- March 12, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 4, 1978
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00301203
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sale Reported
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 820 Aviation Dr
New Bern, NC 28562-8117
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N30521, 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.
Registration status is "Sale reported, pending cancellation". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 4, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 44-7995076 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N30521 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 177A (serial 17701300, cancelled February 8, 1972). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 9, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N30521: Incident on August 16, 2007 at New Bern, NC: no injuries, minor 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: Piper PA-44-180 · operated under 091
A failure of the stabilator control cable turnbuckle terminal fitting due to corrosion. Contributing to the accident were the mechanic's inadequate annual inspection, and the aircraft manufacturer's failure to provide adequate information in its maintenance manuals regarding the inspection of control cable terminals for corrosion.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC07IA194 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