Piper Aircraft Inc PA-28-181
N820ND 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 September 11, 2018 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 31, 2018.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper Aircraft Inc
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s 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-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 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
- 2881048
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-B4A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- AB320B (octal 52631013)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 11, 2018
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 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 · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 31, 2018
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01278115
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N820ND links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 18,636 registered
- Piper Aircraft Inc 1,442 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360-B4A 985 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- University Of North Dakota 89 aircraft in the fleet
- Grand Forks, ND 273 aircraft registered in this town
- Grand Forks International · GFK
- North Dakota 2,491 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 90 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 3,267 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-28 Cherokee, Warrior, Archer and Arrow 697 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360-B4A 32 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360-B4A 64 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N820ND, 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 North Dakota, a government body, certificate issued September 11, 2018, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 31, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2881048 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N820ND 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]
1 NTSB record under N820ND: Accident on October 19, 2021 at Buxton, ND: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper Aircraft INC PA-28-181 · operated under 091
The pilot’s intentional flight into terrain as an act of suicide.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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