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To obtain a complete and accurate representation of the aircraft pipeline system, it is necessary to register and align the individual point clouds acquired from different views. However, the structures of aircraft pipelines often appear similar from different viewpoints, and the scanning process is prone to occlusions, resulting in incomplete point cloud data. The occlusions pose a challenge for existing registration methods, as they can lead to missing or wrong correspondences. To this end, we present a novel registration framework specifically designed for aircraft pipeline scenes. The proposed framework consists of two main steps. First, we extract the point feature structure of the pipeline axis by leveraging the cylindrical characteristics observed between adjacent blocks. Then, we design a new 3D descriptor called PL-PPFs (Point Line\u2013Point Pair Features), which combines information from both the pipeline features and the engine assembly line features within the aircraft pipeline point cloud. By incorporating these relevant features, our descriptor enables accurate identification of the structure of the engine\u2019s piping system. 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