Piper Aircraft Inc PA46-500TP
N271JB is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA46-500TP, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2013. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Valiair Limited CO Trustee, an LLC in Casper, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 19, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 27, 2026.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper Aircraft Inc
- 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
- 4697512
- 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
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A2AAFD (octal 50525375)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 19, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 12, 2026
- 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 · February 27, 2026
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01117870
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Valiair Limited CO Trustee
- 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
- 330 S Center St Ste 300
Casper, WY 82601-2873
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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
Connections how N271JB links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 1,693 registered
- Piper Aircraft Inc 1,442 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 383 aircraft with this engine series · 850 hp
- Valiair Limited CO Trustee 91 aircraft in the fleet
- Casper, WY 1,206 aircraft registered in this town
- Casper/Natrona County International · CPR
- Irwins Sky Ranch Airport · HAD
- Wyoming 3,228 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
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The public federal record on N271JB, 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 Valiair Limited CO Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued February 19, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 27, 2026, 13 years after the 2013 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4697512 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N271JB was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Jonathan Barraclough MANTA 503 (serial JB503-001, cancelled November 4, 2013); Hughes TH-55 (serial 67-15405, cancelled October 4, 2001). 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 N271JB: Accident on December 16, 1998 at Hanceville, AL: minor 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: Hughes 269A · operated under 091
The loss of engine power for undetermined reasons. Factors were a dark night and terrain condition.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data