Piper PA32-301FT
N3005J is a Piper PA32-301FT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Principal Management Group LLC, an LLC in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 7, 2008 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 18, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA32-301FT · all PA32-301FTs and related versions
- Serial number
- 3232069
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-K1G5 · 300 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A32262 (octal 50621142)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 7, 2008
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 18, 2007
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00361059
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Principal Management Group LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3500 Winchester Rd
Allentown, PA 18104-2263
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.
Earlier use of this number 4
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3005J, 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 Principal Management Group LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 7, 2008, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 18, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3232069 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3005J was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Bell 430 (serial 49088, cancelled April 23, 2002); Hiller UH-12E (serial 5024, cancelled April 2, 1998); Cessna A188B (serial 18803590T, cancelled November 14, 1980). 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]
2 NTSB records under N3005J: Accident on May 21, 1997 at Miltonfreewater, OR: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Accident on April 7, 1985 at Williston, ND: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hiller UH-12E · operated under 137
The main rotor blade separated due to fatigue. Factors were: an Airworthiness Directive was not properly performed, and inadequate inspection of the main rotor blades.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA97LA117 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Swearingen SA-227-AC · operated under 135
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN85FA113 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
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