Piper PA-32RT-300T
N31981 is a Piper PA-32RT-300T, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Elusive Aviation INC, a corporation in Pflugerville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 1, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32RT-300T · all PA-32RT-300Ts and related versions
- Serial number
- 32R-7887018
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 124 mph
- Transponder code
- A36BCA (octal 50665712)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 15, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 1, 1978
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00531683
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elusive Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 806 House Wren Loop
Pflugerville, TX 78660-5790
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 N31981, 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 Elusive Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 15, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 1, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32R-7887018 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N31981 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 65-LB (serial LB12581, cancelled April 25, 1951). 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 N31981: Accident on September 9, 2022 at Bulverde, TX: 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 PA32RT · operated under 091
The partial loss of engine power due to excessive carbon deposits that resulted in one or more stuck exhaust valves.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22LA413 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