Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181
N327ND is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2023. It has 4 seats. It is registered to University Of North Dakota, a government body in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 1, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper Aircraft Inc
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2881657
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-B4A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A38981 (octal 50704601)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 22, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 1, 2023
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01412509
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- University Of North Dakota
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 3980 Campus Rd Stop 9007
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9007 - Co-owners
- C/O John D Odegard School Of Aerospace Sciences
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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 N327ND, 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 University Of North Dakota, a government body, certificate issued September 22, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 1, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2881657 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N327ND was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-44-180 (serial 4496174, cancelled November 14, 2012). 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 N327ND: Accident on October 24, 2007 at Browerville, MN: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). 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
An in-flight collision with at least one Canada goose, and the resulting damage to the left stabilator that caused the airplane to become uncontrollable. Contributing to the accident was the night lighting condition, which precluded any possibility of the flight crew seeing the bird(s) prior to impact.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI08FA027 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