Piper PA-31-310
N3551C is a Piper PA-31-310, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an owner whose details are withheld at their request. The FAA lists the registration as "n-number assigned, not registered, pending cancellation". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 11, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-31-310 · all PA-31-310s and related versions
- Serial number
- 31-8012019
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 162 mph
- Transponder code
- A3F9DE (octal 50774736)
Registration
- Status
- N-number assigned, not registered, pending cancellation
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- January 14, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 11, 1980
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 00322873
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- —
- Address
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3551C, 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 "N-number assigned, not registered, pending cancellation". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31-8012019 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3551C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 170B (serial 26595, cancelled April 22, 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3551C. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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