Piper PA46-500TP
N21EP is a Piper PA46-500TP, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2012. It has 6 seats. It is registered to C&J Aviation LLC, an LLC in Orono, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 29, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 21, 2012.
Where is it now Last seen Sunday at 1:57 am.
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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
- 4697500
- 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
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A1B79B (octal 50333633)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 29, 2025
- Expires
- January 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2025
- 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 21, 2012
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01102830
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- C&J 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
- 3640 Bayside Rd
Orono, MN 55356-9222
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 N21EP links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 1,693 registered
- Piper 44,839 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 384 aircraft with this engine series · 850 hp
- C&J Aviation LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Orono, MN 4 aircraft registered in this town
- Minnesota 6,958 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
- Where N21EP is now · Last seen Sunday at 1:57 am.
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The public federal record on N21EP, 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 C&J Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 29, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 21, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4697500 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N21EP was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper Aircraft Inc PA46-500TP (serial 4697479, cancelled July 18, 2012); Cessna 501 (serial 5010040, cancelled June 16, 2008). 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 N21EP: Accident on June 3, 2013 at West Palm Beach, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on March 23, 2012 at Wellington, FL: serious 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.
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-46-500TP · operated under 091
The pilot’s diversion of attention while taxiing the airplane, which resulted in his failure to maintain directional control and collision with a ditch.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA46 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during the takeoff roll, which resulted in a collision with a tree.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 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 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data