Piaggio Aero Industries Spa P180
N71BS is a Piaggio Aero Industries Spa P180, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2007. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Midanc LLC, an LLC in Winston Salem, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 4, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piaggio Aero Industries Spa
- Model
- P180 · all P180s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1149
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6A-66B · 950 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A979DE (octal 52274736)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 26, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 26, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 4, 2024
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00442259
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Midanc LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1315 Westbrook Plaza Dr Ste 100
Winston Salem, NC 27103-1357
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N71BS, 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 Midanc LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 26, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 4, 2024, 17 years after the 2007 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1149 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N71BS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna U206G (serial U20605307, cancelled March 6, 2018). 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 N71BS: Accident on July 14, 2009 at Yellow Pine, ID: serious 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: Cessna U206G · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from the trees while taking off in a high-density altitude. Contributing to the accident were the pilot's failure to perform pre-takeoff performance calculations, his positioning of the elevator trim in a nose-down position, and the discrepancy between the airplane's flap positioning lever and the actual position of the flaps.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR09LA343 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