Piper PA46-500TP
N30397 is a Piper PA46-500TP, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2003. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Nacogdoches, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 17, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 17, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA46-500TP · all PA46-500TPs and related versions
- Serial number
- 4697167
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A32E2A (octal 50627052)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 17, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 17, 2003
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00073709
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rust Raymond H III
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 303 Zeno St
Nacogdoches, TX 75965-2526 - Co-owners
- Rust Dawnella Marie
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N30397, 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 Rust Raymond H III, a co-owned, certificate issued September 17, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 17, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4697167 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N30397 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-44-180 (serial 44-7995074, cancelled April 6, 2000); Cessna 177A (serial 17701234, cancelled June 22, 1970). 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 N30397: Accident on April 14, 1999 at Vero Beach, 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 PA-44-180 · operated under 091
The improper return to service of a propeller hub by a propeller overhaul company which according to manufacturer's procedures should have been retired due to damage to propeller blades from sudden stoppage. This resulted in undetected fatigue propagation through the hub and separation of a propeller blade in flight. This resulted in overstress separation of the propeller flange and the remainder of the propeller and overstress separation of the engine mount causing the engine to drop down making the aircraft uncontrollable.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA99LA128 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