{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2025-06-07","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-06-30","city":"TRAVERSE CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"055","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41866","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-360-B1G6","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-06-30","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7104402","mode_s_code":"52160205","mode_s_hex":"A8E085","model":"PA-44-180","n_number":"N671MC","name":"NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN COLLEGE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Minneapolis","damage":"MINR","date":"2010-06-15","highest_injury":"","ntsb_no":"ENG10IA037","probable_cause":"The failure of the facility that overhauled the 1st stage fan blade to properly restore the leading edge, which caused a flutter mode resulting in a fatigue crack and fracture of the fan blade.","registration":"N671MC","state":"MN","summary":"Incident on June 15, 2010 at Minneapolis, MN: minor damage.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N671MC is a Piper PA-44-180, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Northwestern Michigan College, a government body in Traverse City, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 30, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 7, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Northwestern Michigan College, a government body, certificate issued June 30, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated June 7, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4496601 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N671MC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-9-51 (serial 47660, cancelled May 11, 2015). 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":"1 NTSB record under N671MC: Incident on June 15, 2010 at Minneapolis, MN: 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":4,"serial_number":"4496601","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1701 E FRONT ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01497971","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N671MC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2025,"zip":"496863016"}