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N217RC

Piper Aircraft Inc PA-46-701TP

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesDelaware

N217RC is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA-46-701TP, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2025. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Sub C Air LLC, an LLC in Lewes, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 3, 2025. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper Aircraft Inc
Model
PA-46-701TP · all PA-46-701TPs 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
46020065
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-52 · 898 hp
Seats
6
Year built
2025
Transponder code
A1D4FD (octal 50352375)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
July 30, 2025
Expires
July 31, 2032
Last FAA action
March 11, 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 · July 3, 2025
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01507934

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sub C Air 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
16192 Coastal Hwy
Lewes, DE 19958-3608

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Documents on file 1

2026-10-23Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Connections how N217RC links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Lewes, DE 897 aircraft registered in this town
  • Delaware 10,952 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N217RC, 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 Sub C Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 30, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated July 3, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 46020065 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N217RC according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 23, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N217RC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data