Piper PA-32-300
N3042U 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 Cleveland, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 5, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32-300 · all PA-32-300s and related versions
- Serial number
- 32-7940078
- 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
- A330DF (octal 50630337)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 3, 2020
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 5, 1979
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00851173
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Anderson Jacob P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2385 Freewill Rd NW
Cleveland, TN 37312-2122
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3042U, 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 Anderson Jacob P, an individual, certificate issued April 3, 2020, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 5, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32-7940078 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3042U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172E (serial 17250642, cancelled December 26, 1963). 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 N3042U: Accident on March 27, 1987 at Toccoa, GA: 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-32-300 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL87LA097 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