Piper PA-42
N396FW is a Piper PA-42, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1980. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Route 66 Aerostars LLC, an LLC in Galena, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 29, 2015 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 18, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-42 · all PA-42s and related versions
- Serial number
- 428001021
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A499A5 (octal 51114645)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 29, 2015
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 18, 1996
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00953210
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Route 66 Aerostars LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 720 S Main St
Galena, KS 66739-1302
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N396FW, 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 Route 66 Aerostars LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 29, 2015, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 18, 1996, 16 years after the 1980 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 428001021 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N396FW 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 N396FW. 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