Piper PA-32-260
N2231M is a Piper PA-32-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Great Lakes Aviation Services INC, a corporation in Kimball, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 21, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 11, 1967.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32-260 · all PA-32-260s and related versions
- Serial number
- 32-975
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A1EEAD (octal 50367255)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 21, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 21, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 11, 1967
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00270566
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Great Lakes Aviation Services INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 140 Airport Dr
Kimball, MI 48074-4406
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N2231M, 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 Great Lakes Aviation Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 21, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32-975 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2231M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Ayres Corporation S2R-G10 (serial G10153, cancelled December 4, 1998); Piper PA-44-180 (serial 447995217, cancelled June 19, 1989). 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 N2231M: Accident on May 9, 1989 at Fort Pierce, FL: fatal, destroyed (3 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-44-180 · operated under 091
INADEQUATE SUPERVISION BY THE INSTRUCTOR PILOT (CFI), AND FAILURE OF THE CREW TO MAINTAIN SUFFICIENT AIRSPEED, WHICH RESULTED IN AN INADVERTENT STALL/SPIN AND SUBSEQUENT LOSS OF ENGINE POWER FROM POSSIBLE INTERRUPTION OF FUEL.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA89FA146 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 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