Piper AEROSTAR 601P
N111DS is a Piper AEROSTAR 601P, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Starflight Aviation INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 7, 2011 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 26, 1979.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 11:29 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- AEROSTAR 601P · all AEROSTAR 601Ps and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. The Ted Smith Aerostar. This is how the Piper AEROSTAR 601 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
- 61P07047963338
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A03046 (octal 50030106)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 7, 2011
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 26, 1979
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00921086
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Starflight Aviation INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N111DS links to the rest of the register
- Piper AEROSTAR 601 117 registered
- Piper 44,842 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-540 series 4,222 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Starflight Aviation INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, DE 7,377 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,967 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540 series 49 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540 series 316 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Coupling, corroded · 2000-08-15
- Report filed on this aircraft: Ring, damaged · 1999-05-11
- Report filed on this aircraft: Shaft, req replacement · 1995-05-02
- Where N111DS is now · Last seen Thursday at 11:29 am.
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The public federal record on N111DS, 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.
Valid registration to Starflight Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 7, 2011, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 26, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 61P07047963338 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N111DS was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 222U (serial 47554, cancelled July 25, 2008); Cessna 411 (serial 411-0042, cancelled June 5, 1973). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N111DS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data