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N8263M

Piper PA-44-180

Valid Ohio

N8263M is a Piper PA-44-180, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Kent State University, a government body in Stow, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 29, 1988 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 14, 1982.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-44-180 · all PA-44-180s and related versions
Serial number
44-8195026
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors
Seats
4
Year built
1981
Transponder code
AB49F2 (octal 52644762)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 29, 1988
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · July 14, 1982
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00933571

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kent State University
Type
Government
Address
4020 Kent Rd
Stow, OH 44224

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 2

1980-10-22Piper PA-34-200T · exported to New Zealand · Valid registration
1970-06-12Cessna 210K · exported to Spain · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8263M, 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 Kent State University, a government body, certificate issued September 29, 1988, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated July 14, 1982, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 44-8195026 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8263M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-34-200T (serial 34-8070355, cancelled October 22, 1980); Cessna 210K (serial 210-59263, cancelled June 12, 1970). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8263M. 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 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data