Piper Aircraft Inc PA-44-180
N422CW is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA-44-180, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2018. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Central Washington University, a government body in Ellensburg, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 16, 2019 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 7, 2018.
Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 4:01 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper Aircraft Inc
- 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
- 4496438
- 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 IO-360-B1G6 · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A50354 (octal 51201524)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 16, 2019
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- 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 · September 7, 2018
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01280944
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Central Washington University (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 400 e University Way
Ellensburg, WA 98926-7502
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N422CW links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-44 Seminole 603 registered
- Piper Aircraft Inc 1,436 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360-B1G6 181 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Central Washington University 18 aircraft in the fleet
- Ellensburg, WA 76 aircraft registered in this town
- Bowers Field · ELN
- Washington 10,664 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-44 Seminole 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-44 Seminole 903 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-44 Seminole 232 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360-B1G6 23 airworthiness directives
- Where N422CW is now · Last seen October 17 at 4:01 pm.
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The public federal record on N422CW, 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 Central Washington University, a government body, certificate issued January 16, 2019, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 7, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4496438 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N422CW 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 N422CW. 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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data