Piper PA-31-350
N257SH is a Piper PA-31-350, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Dodson International Parts INC, a corporation in Rantoul, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 4, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-31-350 · all PA-31-350s and related versions
- Serial number
- 31-8052121
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 162 mph
- Transponder code
- A27317 (octal 50471427)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- February 5, 2022
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 4, 1980
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00053003
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dodson International Parts INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2155 Vermont Rd
Rantoul, KS 66079-9014
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.
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The public federal record on N257SH, 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 Dodson International Parts INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. 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 31-8052121 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N257SH according to the deregistered file. [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 N257SH: Accident on September 19, 2020 at Fort Lauderdale, FL: no 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.
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 PA31 · operated under 135
The pilot’s improper preflight fuel planning, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s decision to continue to the destination following the loss of engine power to the first engine.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA20LA331 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data