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N2947U

Piper PA-32-300

Valid Texas

N2947U is a Piper PA-32-300, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Montgomery, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 16, 1979.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-32-300 · all PA-32-300s and related versions
Serial number
32-7940226
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1979
Cruising speed
126 mph
Transponder code
A307B6 (octal 50603666)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 31, 2023
Expires
August 31, 2030
Last FAA action
August 31, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · July 16, 1979
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00140773

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Dickenson Scott
Type
Individual
Address
7 La Costa Dr
Montgomery, TX 77356-5330

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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 1

1963-08-29Cessna 172D · exported to Kenya · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N2947U, 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 Dickenson Scott, an individual, certificate issued August 31, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated July 16, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32-7940226 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2947U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172D (serial 17250547, cancelled August 29, 1963). 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

1 NTSB record under N2947U: Accident on January 24, 1986 at Melbourne, FL: no 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 1

MIA86LA065Accident on January 24, 1986 at Melbourne, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32-300 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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