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N30898

Piper PA46-500TP

Valid Texas

N30898 is a Piper PA46-500TP, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2005. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Harlingen, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 26, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 9, 2005.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA46-500TP · all PA46-500TPs and related versions
Serial number
4697202
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
Seats
6
Year built
2005
Transponder code
A340BE (octal 50640276)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 26, 2023
Expires
July 31, 2030
Last FAA action
July 26, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · February 9, 2005
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00158459

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Painter Andrew S
Type
Individual
Address
1805 Bell St
Harlingen, TX 78550-8208

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

1996-11-05Cessna 177B · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N30898, 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 Painter Andrew S, an individual, certificate issued July 26, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated February 9, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4697202 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N30898 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 177B (serial 17701535, cancelled November 5, 1996). 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 N30898: Accident on January 1, 1995 at Torreon, NM: 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

FTW95LA079Accident on January 1, 1995 at Torreon, NM: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 17701535

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 177B · operated under 091

THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO ATTAIN PROPER LIFTOFF SPEED RESULTING IN AN INADVERTENT STALL AND THE FAILURE TO REMOVE FROST FROM THE WING. A FACTOR WAS FATIGUE.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW95LA079 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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