Piper PA46-500TP
N176MA is a Piper PA46-500TP, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2026. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Piper Aircraft INC, a non-citizen corporation in Vero Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 15, 2026.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA46-500TP · all PA46-500TPs 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. 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
- 4697729
- 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
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-42A · 850 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2026
- Transponder code
- A1308B (octal 50230213)
Registration
- Status
- Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificateFAA registration status code M (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- April 6, 2026
- 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 · May 15, 2026
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01551545
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Piper Aircraft INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporationFAA type of owner code 8 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2926 Piper Dr
Vero Beach, FL 32960-1955
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 N176MA links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 1,692 registered
- Piper 44,848 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-42A 383 aircraft with this engine series · 850 hp
- Piper Aircraft INC 211 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to August 21, 2027
- Vero Beach, FL 567 aircraft registered in this town
- Vero Beach Regional · VRB
- New Hibiscus Airpark · X52
- Florida 21,706 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 39 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 466 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 262 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-42A 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-42A 69 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Audio Panel, burned · 2006-01-17
- Report filed on this aircraft: Audio Panel, burned · 2006-01-17
- Report filed on this aircraft: Audio Panel, burned · 2006-01-17
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The public federal record on N176MA, 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 Piper Aircraft INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 15, 2026, consistent with the 2026 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4697729 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N176MA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Diamond Aircraft DA20-C1 (serial C0345, cancelled March 13, 2018); Nord 1101 (serial 176, cancelled May 1, 2003). 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]
2 NTSB records under N176MA: Accident on May 31, 2013 at Linden, NJ: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Accident on March 5, 2009 at Morristown, NJ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Diamond Aircraft Ind INC DA 20-C1 · operated under 091
The flight instructor's inadequate preflight planning and his decision to take off with the airplane at a high gross weight in high temperature conditions that degraded the engine’s available power and his subsequent failure to maintain airspeed while attempting to return to the departure airport, which resulted in the airplane exceeding its critical angle-of-attack and experiencing an aerodynamic stall.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Diamond Aircraft Ind INC DA 20-C1 · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff roll.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 22, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 22, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 22, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 22, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data