Piper PA-44-180
N445BL is a Piper PA-44-180, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Blue Line Aviation LLC, an LLC in Smithfield, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 15, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- 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
- 4496599
- 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
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A55D54 (octal 51256524)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 30, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 30, 2025
- 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 · May 15, 2025
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01488163
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blue Line Aviation LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3149 B Swift Creek Rd
Smithfield, NC 27577
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
Connections how N445BL links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-44 Seminole 600 registered
- Piper 44,847 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 177 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Blue Line Aviation LLC 29 aircraft in the fleet
- Smithfield, NC 36 aircraft registered in this town
- Johnston Regional · JNX
- North Carolina 7,132 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-44 Seminole 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-44 Seminole 902 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
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The public federal record on N445BL, 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 Blue Line Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 30, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 15, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4496599 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N445BL was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Israel Aircraft Industries 1124A (serial 382, cancelled March 5, 1993). 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 N445BL: Accident on May 1, 1991 at Oxford, CT: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Israel Aircraft Industries 1124A · operated under 135
THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN THE PROPER LANDING DESCENT RATE AND THE RESULTANT RIGHT MAIN LANDING GEAR ASSEMBLY COLLAPSE.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data