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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-30 · all PA-30s and related versions
- Serial number
- 30-59
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming IO-320-B1A · 160 hp
- 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 reports
- Certificate issued
- April 17, 2025
- Expires
- April 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 26, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 12, 1963
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01176237
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Terra Ferma INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- 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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC89LA031 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