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N771ND

Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181

N771ND is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2018. It has 4 seats. It is registered to University Of North Dakota, a government body in Grand Forks, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 8, 2018 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 7, 2018.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper Aircraft Inc
Model
PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
Serial number
2881036
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-B4A · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2018
Transponder code
AA6DEE (octal 52466756)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 8, 2018
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · June 7, 2018
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01275355

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
University Of North Dakota
Type
Government
Address
3980 Campus Rd Stop 9007
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9007

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N771ND, 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 University Of North Dakota, a government body, certificate issued August 8, 2018, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 7, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2881036 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N771ND 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N771ND: Accident on May 28, 2023 at Grand Forks, ND: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CEN23LA234Accident on May 28, 2023 at Grand Forks, ND: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper Aircraft INC PA-28-181 · operated under 091

The student pilot’s failure to attain a proper takeoff attitude while demonstrating a soft field takeoff and his improper control inputs resulting in a dragged wing. Contributing to the accident were the gusting wind conditions.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23LA234 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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