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N146MS

Piper PA-46-310P

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesArkansas

N146MS is a Piper PA-46-310P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Magnolia Partners Aviation LLC, an LLC in Lockesburg, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 9, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 30, 1984.

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-46-310P · all PA-46-310Ps and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. Pressurised cabin. This is how the Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 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
46-8408032
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-520 SER · 300 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1984
Transponder code
A0BA1E (octal 50135036)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
June 9, 2023
Expires
June 30, 2030
Last FAA action
June 9, 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 · March 30, 1984
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00502154

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Magnolia Partners Aviation LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
124 Darter Cir
Lockesburg, AR 71846-9563

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N146MS links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Lockesburg, AR 1 aircraft registered in this town
  • Arkansas 3,495 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N146MS.json.

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The public federal record on N146MS, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Magnolia Partners Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 9, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated March 30, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 46-8408032 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N146MS according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N146MS: Accident on March 24, 2023 at Springfield, KY: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

WPR23LA236Accident on March 24, 2023 at Springfield, KY: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-46-310P · operated under 091

The pilot’s failure to activate the pitot heat in a timely manner during flight into icing conditions, which resulted in a temporary failure of the flight instruments and a subsequent loss of control.

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CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data