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A Piper PA-44 Seminole, the same model family as N5321R
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026
N5321R

Piper PA-44-180

Renewal notice sentFAA registration status code 25: First notice for registration renewal. All codesTexas

N5321R is a Piper PA-44-180, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Texas State Technical College, a government body in Waco, Texas. The FAA lists the registration as "first notice for registration renewal" (certificate issued April 26, 2002). No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-44-180 · all PA-44-180s 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-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
4496045
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
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A6BA66 (octal 51535146)

Registration

Status
First notice for registration renewalFAA registration status code 25 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
April 26, 2002
Expires
March 31, 2027
Last FAA action
April 4, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00363754

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Texas State Technical College (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
Type
GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
3801 Campus Dr
Waco, TX 76705-1607
Learn to fly in N5321R with Texas State Technical College:

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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 2

1990-02-23Cessna 172M · N-number assigned but not yet registered
1965-05-10Cessna 172F · exported to Ecuador · Valid registration

Connections how N5321R links to the rest of the register

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Owner
Place
Airworthiness

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N5321R.json.

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N5321R, 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.

ATTENTIONRegistration and identity

Registration status is "First notice for registration renewal". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4496045 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5321R was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172M (serial 17263520, cancelled February 23, 1990); Cessna 172F (serial 17252845, cancelled May 10, 1965). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N5321R. 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 November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data