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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper Aircraft Inc
- Model
- PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2881048
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-B4A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- AB320B (octal 52631013)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 11, 2018
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · July 31, 2018
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01278115
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- University Of North Dakota
- Type
- Government
- 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.
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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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22FA017 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data