Piper PA-44-180
N316PA is a Piper PA-44-180, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Bird Acquisition LLC, an LLC in Phoenix, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2007 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 19, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-44-180 · all PA-44-180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4496125
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A35E61 (octal 50657141)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 25, 2007
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 19, 2002
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00084127
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bird Acquisition LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 530 W Deer Valley Rd Ste 100
Phoenix, AZ 85027-2143
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N316PA, 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 Bird Acquisition LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 25, 2007, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 19, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4496125 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N316PA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 727-21 (serial 18994, cancelled December 16, 1980). 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 N316PA: Accident on September 4, 2011 at Phoenix, AZ: 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: Piper PA-44-180 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper flare and hard landing, which resulted in the failure of the nose landing gear drag link in overstress.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR11LA471 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