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N426RM

Piper PA-28-181

Valid Montana

N426RM is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Rocky Mountain College, a corporation in Billings, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 2003 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 23, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
Serial number
2843529
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2002
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A5136C (octal 51211554)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 19, 2003
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · August 23, 2002
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00947351

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rocky Mountain College
Type
Corporation
Address
1511 Poly Dr
Billings, MT 59102-1739

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N426RM, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Rocky Mountain College, a corporation, certificate issued March 19, 2003, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 23, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2843529 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N426RM according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N426RM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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