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Piper PA-42-720
N396CT is a Piper PA-42-720, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1987. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Flight Assets LLC, an LLC in Dover, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 2020 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 8, 2020.
Where is it now Last seen Friday at 9:00 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-42-720 · all PA-42-720s 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-42 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
- 42-5501044
- 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
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6A-61 · 850 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 1987
- Transponder code
- A49957 (octal 51114527)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 12, 2020
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 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 · June 8, 2020
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01313942
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flight Assets LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 8 the Grn Ste B
Dover, DE 19901-3618
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.
Connections how N396CT links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-42 59 registered
- Piper 44,845 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-61 19 aircraft with this engine series · 850 hp
- Flight Assets LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Dover, DE 1,043 aircraft registered in this town
- Dover Air Force Base · DOV
- Chandelle Airport · 0N4
- Deldot Helistop · 0N5
- Delaware 10,966 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-42 15 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-42 120 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-42 134 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-61 2 airworthiness directives
- Where N396CT is now · Last seen Friday at 9:00 pm.
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The public federal record on N396CT, 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 Flight Assets LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 12, 2020, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 8, 2020, 33 years after the 1987 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42-5501044 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N396CT according to the deregistered file. [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 N396CT. 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 November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data