{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1965-01-22","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-12-12","city":"GAITHERSBURG","country_code":"US","county_code":"031","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41514","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O&VO-360 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-12-13","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7104402","mode_s_code":"50624444","mode_s_hex":"A32924","model":"PA-44-180","n_number":"N3020M","name":"WIFA (WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT ACADEMY) LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Gaithersburg","damage":"SUBS","date":"2017-06-09","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA17LA204","probable_cause":"The failure of the right main landing gear trunnion bracket due to an undetermined overstress event.","registration":"N3020M","state":"MD","summary":"Accident on June 9, 2017 at Gaithersburg, MD: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Gaithersburg","damage":"SUBS","date":"2011-08-26","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA11CA486","probable_cause":"The pilot's decision to continue taxiing with restricted windshield visibility.","registration":"N3020M","state":"MD","summary":"Accident on August 26, 2011 at Gaithersburg, MD: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N3020M is a Piper PA-44-180, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Wifa (Washington International Flight Academy) LLC, an LLC in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 22, 1965.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Wifa (Washington International Flight Academy) LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 12, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated January 22, 1965, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 44-7995220 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N3020M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-12 (serial 12-1575, cancelled December 17, 1974). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"2 NTSB records under N3020M: Accident on June 9, 2017 at Gaithersburg, MD: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 26, 2011 at Gaithersburg, MD: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"44-7995220","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MD","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7940 AIRPARK RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00151093","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N3020M","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"208794176"}