{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1978-10-04","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"NEW BERN","country_code":"US","county_code":"049","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-09"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41514","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O&VO-360 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-03-12","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7104402","mode_s_code":"50632235","mode_s_hex":"A3349D","model":"PA-44-180","n_number":"N30521","name":"SALE REPORTED","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"New Bern","damage":"MINR","date":"2007-08-16","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"NYC07IA194","probable_cause":"A failure of the stabilator control cable turnbuckle terminal fitting due to corrosion. Contributing to the accident were the mechanic's inadequate annual inspection, and the aircraft manufacturer's failure to provide adequate information in its maintenance manuals regarding the inspection of control cable terminals for corrosion.","registration":"N30521","state":"NC","summary":"Incident on August 16, 2007 at New Bern, NC: no injuries, minor damage.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N30521 is a Piper PA-44-180, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in New Bern, North Carolina. The FAA lists the registration as \"sale reported, pending cancellation\". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 4, 1978. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Sale reported, pending cancellation\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated October 4, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 44-7995076 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N30521 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 177A (serial 17701300, cancelled February 8, 1972). 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":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 9, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N30521: Incident on August 16, 2007 at New Bern, NC: no injuries, minor 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":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"44-7995076","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NC","status":"Sale reported, pending cancellation","status_code":"17","status_short":"Sale reported","street":"820 AVIATION DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00301203","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N30521","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1978,"zip":"285628117"}