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N21EP

Piper PA46-500TP

Valid Minnesota

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.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA46-500TP · all PA46-500TPs and related versions
Serial number
4697500
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-42A · 850 hp
Seats
6
Year built
2012
Transponder code
A1B79B (octal 50333633)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 29, 2025
Expires
January 31, 2032
Last FAA action
April 7, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · September 21, 2012
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01102830

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
C&J Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
3640 Bayside Rd
Orono, MN 55356-9222

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 2

2012-07-18Piper Aircraft Inc PA46-500TP · Valid registration
2008-06-16Cessna 501 · exported to Argentina · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to C&J Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 29, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 21, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4697500 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

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]

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

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]

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 2

ERA13CA278Accident on June 3, 2013 at West Palm Beach, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.

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.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA13CA278 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

ERA12LA250Accident on March 23, 2012 at Wellington, FL: serious injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 4697479

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.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA12LA250 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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