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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N969ND

Piper PA-28-181

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNorth Dakota
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N969ND is a Piper PA-28-181, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. 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 18, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 29, 2025.

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-28-181 · all PA-28-181s 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-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
2881923
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
2025
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
AD7EC5 (octal 53277305)

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 18, 2025
Expires
October 31, 2032
Last FAA action
October 18, 2025
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 · August 29, 2025
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01512619

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 N969ND links to the rest of the register

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The public federal record on N969ND, 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 18, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 29, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2881923 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N969ND according to the deregistered file. [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 N969ND. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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  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

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data