Piper Aircraft Inc PA-44-180
N4438T is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA-44-180, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Alf Ix LLC, an LLC in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 3, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 3, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper Aircraft Inc
- Model
- PA-44-180 · all PA-44-180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4496388
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming O-360-A1H6 · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A55944 (octal 51254504)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 3, 2022
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 3, 2015
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01188736
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alf Ix LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- C/O Residco
70 W Madison St Ste 2200
Chicago, IL 60602-4383
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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 N4438T, 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 Alf Ix LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 3, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 3, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4496388 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4438T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28R-200 (serial 28R-7235050, cancelled April 9, 2008). 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 N4438T: Accident on June 4, 2006 at Alpine, CA: 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-28R-200 · operated under 091
a loss of engine power due to the aviation maintenance technician's failure to install the correct oil sump quick drain, which resulted in the inadvertent draining of engine oil during flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX06CA191 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