Piper PA-31-310
N1851A is a Piper PA-31-310, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Placer County Sheriffs Department, a government body in Auburn, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 1996 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 16, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-31-310 · all PA-31-310s and related versions
- Serial number
- 31-7812030
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 2 motors · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 162 mph
- Transponder code
- A155BB (octal 50252673)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 12, 1996
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 16, 1977
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00220093
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Placer County Sheriffs Department
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 2929 Richardson Dr Ste A
Auburn, CA 95603-2615
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 1
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The public federal record on N1851A, 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 Placer County Sheriffs Department, a government body, certificate issued March 12, 1996, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 16, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31-7812030 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1851A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-18-125 (serial 181680, cancelled March 8, 1991). 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]
1 NTSB record under N1851A: Accident on September 27, 1982 at Casa Grande, AZ: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data