Piper PA-44-180
N5012A is a Piper PA-44-180, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Epic Aviation INC, a corporation in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 3, 2017 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 23, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-44-180 · all PA-44-180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4496044
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A64046 (octal 51440106)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 3, 2017
- Expires
- February 28, 2027
- Last FAA action
- October 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 23, 2001
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00293744
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Epic Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 600 Skyline Dr
New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168-5948
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5012A, 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 Epic Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 3, 2017, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 23, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4496044 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5012A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Hughes Helicopters Inc HUGHES 369D (serial 510980D, cancelled September 26, 1996); Cessna 172 (serial 28012, cancelled June 8, 1970). 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 N5012A: Accident on August 24, 1990 at Santa Monica, 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: Hughes 369D · operated under 133
THE PILOT'S DECISION TO EXIT THE HELICOPTER WITH THE ENGINE RUNNING AND NO ONE AT THE CONTROLS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX90LA303 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