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N446RM

Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMontana
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N446RM 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 Rocky Mountain College, a corporation in Billings, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 16, 2023.

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper Aircraft Inc
Model
PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 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
28020111
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-B4A · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2023
Transponder code
A5626A (octal 51261152)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
May 16, 2023
Expires
May 31, 2030
Last FAA action
May 25, 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 · March 16, 2023
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01394200

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rocky Mountain College (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
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.

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The public federal record on N446RM, 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 May 16, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated March 16, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28020111 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N446RM 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 N446RM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data