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A Piper PA-44 Seminole, the same model family as N799ND
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N799ND

Piper PA-44-180

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNorth Dakota

N799ND is a Piper PA-44-180, a fixed-wing airplane with more than 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 October 23, 2018 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 28, 2018. 3 documents are on file: loan release, loan or lien (security agreement), bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Where is it now Last seen October 13 at 9:26 am.

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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
4496437
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 IO-360-B1G6 · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2018
Transponder code
AADAA4 (octal 52555244)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
October 23, 2018
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 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 · August 28, 2018
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01280734

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
University of North Dakota (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
3980 Campus Rd Stop 9007
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9007
Co-owners
John D Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences
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Documents on file 3

2026-10-08Loan release
2026-10-08Loan or lien (security agreement)
2026-10-08Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Connections how N799ND links to the rest of the register

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Place
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Records check free · 1 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N799ND, 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 October 23, 2018, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated August 28, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4496437 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N799ND according to the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (October 8, 2026), and 1 release. The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N799ND. 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 October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data