Piper Aircraft Inc PA-44-180
N781ND is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA-44-180, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2016. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Rainier Flight Service LLC, an LLC in Renton, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 17, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 8, 2016.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 4:06 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper Aircraft Inc
- Model
- PA-44-180 · all PA-44-180s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe 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
- 4496395
- 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 · Lycoming O-360-A1H6 · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- AA956D (octal 52512555)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 17, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 8, 2016
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01225677
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rainier Flight Service LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 800 W Perimeter Rd
Renton, WA 98057-5328
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N781ND links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-44 Seminole 603 registered
- Piper Aircraft Inc 1,436 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360-A1H6 106 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Rainier Flight Service LLC 34 aircraft in the fleet
- Renton, WA 315 aircraft registered in this town
- Renton Municipal · RNT
- Will Rogers Wiley Post Memorial Seaplane Base · W36
- Washington 10,664 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-44 Seminole 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-44 Seminole 903 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-44 Seminole 232 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-360-A1H6 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360-A1H6 169 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Wire Harness, chafed · 2018-01-05
- Where N781ND is now · Last seen Thursday at 4:06 pm.
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The public federal record on N781ND, 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 Rainier Flight Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 17, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 8, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4496395 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N781ND according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N781ND. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data