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N248AM

Piper PA-32R-301

N248AM is a Piper PA-32R-301, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 7 seats. It is registered to an individual in Andover, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 1, 1996.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-32R-301 · all PA-32R-301s and related versions
Serial number
3246054
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
Seats
7
Year built
1996
Transponder code
A24DC3 (octal 50446703)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 24, 2026
Expires
February 28, 2033
Last FAA action
February 24, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · November 1, 1996
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00386231

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Desfosse Donald J Trustee
Type
Individual
Address
8 Tally Ho Ln
Andover, MA 01810-4515

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N248AM, 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 Desfosse Donald J Trustee, an individual, certificate issued February 24, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated November 1, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3246054 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N248AM according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N248AM. 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 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