Piper PA-31-350
N3589X is a Piper PA-31-350, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Marc INC, a corporation in Bolton, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 9, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 25, 1980.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-31-350 · all PA-31-350s 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-31 Navajo and Chieftain 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
- 31-8052138
- 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 TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 162 mph
- Transponder code
- A4062E (octal 51003056)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 9, 2015
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- 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 · April 25, 1980
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00803033
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Marc INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4090 Airport Rd
Bolton, MS 39041-9192
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 N3589X links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain 934 registered
- Piper 44,840 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming TIO-540 series 5,074 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Marc INC 32 aircraft in the fleet
- Bolton, MS 37 aircraft registered in this town
- Mississippi 2,604 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain 114 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain 3,365 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain 535 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming TIO-540 series 41 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming TIO-540 series 363 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bulkhead, cracked · 2012-10-05
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bulkhead, cracked · 2012-10-03
- Report filed on this aircraft: Seal, leaking · 2008-07-28
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The public federal record on N3589X, 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 Marc INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 9, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 25, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31-8052138 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3589X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney M-20G (serial 680158, cancelled October 14, 1968). 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 N3589X: Accident on August 21, 2023 at Durant, OK: 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 PA31 · operated under 091
The loosening of a connecting rod cap nut for reasons that could not be determined, which resulted in a mechanical failure of the engine and an in-flight fire.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data