Piper PA-44-180
N5331N 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 University Of Illinois, a government body in Savoy, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2002 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 16, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-44-180 · all PA-44-180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4496106
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A6BE1A (octal 51537032)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 12, 2002
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 16, 2001
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00974007
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- University Of Illinois
- Type
- Government
- Address
- University Of Il Willard Arpt
1 Airport Rd
Savoy, IL 61874-9730 - Co-owners
- Board Of Trustees
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5331N, 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 University Of Illinois, a government body, certificate issued February 12, 2002, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 16, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4496106 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5331N was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Christen Industries Inc PITTS S-2B (serial 5057, cancelled September 29, 1992); Cessna 182Q (serial 18267650, cancelled January 30, 1981). 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 N5331N: Accident on October 24, 2023 at Savoy, IL: 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-44-180 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to extend the landing gear before landing and the flight instructor’s inadequate supervision to ensure that the landing gear was extended.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24LA026 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