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Piper PA-30
N30FA is a Piper PA-30, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1963. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Terra Ferma INC, a non-citizen corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The FAA lists the registration as "non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports" (certificate issued April 17, 2025). It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 12, 1963.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-30 · all PA-30s 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 Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche 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
- 30-59
- 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 IO-320-B1A · 160 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 139 mph
- Transponder code
- A31D77 (octal 50616567)
Registration
- Status
- Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reportsFAA registration status code N (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 17, 2025
- Expires
- April 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 26, 2026
- 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 · August 12, 1963
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01176237
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Terra Ferma INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporationFAA type of owner code 8 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5305 Limestone Rd Ste 200
Wilmington, DE 19808-1247
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
Connections how N30FA links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche 880 registered
- Piper 44,838 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-320-B1A 56 aircraft with this engine series · 160 hp
- Type certificate A1EA · held by Piper Aircraft INC
- Terra Ferma INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, DE 7,379 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,969 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche 41 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche 163 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche 380 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-320-B1A 38 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-320-B1A 76 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N30FA.json.
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The public federal record on N30FA, 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.
Registration status is "Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 12, 1963, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30-59 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N30FA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: American AA-5 (serial AA5-0103, cancelled April 15, 2013). 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 N30FA: Accident on November 15, 1988 at Latrobe, PA: minor 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: Grumman AA-5 · operated under 091
LOSS OF DIRECTIONAL CONTROL WHILE TAXIING AT AN EXCESSIVE SPEED.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data