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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Smith AEROSTAR 600
N2PB is a Smith AEROSTAR 600, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rch Palos Vrd, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 2, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 26, 1973.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith
- Model
- AEROSTAR 600 · all AEROSTAR 600s 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. This is how the Smith AEROSTAR 600 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
- 60-0140-060
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 186 mph
- Transponder code
- A18E98 (octal 50307230)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 2, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- 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 · July 26, 1973
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00720812
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Roth Jon A
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 30423 Miraleste Dr
Rch Palos Vrd, CA 90275-6477
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N2PB links to the rest of the register
- Smith AEROSTAR 600 42 registered
- Smith 184 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming TIO-540 series 5,077 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Rch Palos Vrd, CA 59 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming TIO-540 series 41 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming TIO-540 series 363 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N2PB, 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 Roth Jon A, an individual, certificate issued January 2, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 26, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 60-0140-060 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2PB 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2PB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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