Socata TBM 700
N3GS is a Socata TBM 700, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2014. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Schaeffer Aviation LLC, an LLC in Bend, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 7, 2014 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 8, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Socata
- Model
- TBM 700 · all TBM 700s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1030
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A66D · 850 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A31B47 (octal 50615507)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 7, 2014
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 8, 2014
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01152738
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schaeffer Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 400 SW Bluff Dr Ste 240
Bend, OR 97702-1697
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3GS, 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 Schaeffer Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 7, 2014, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 8, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1030 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3GS was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech B100 (serial BE36, cancelled April 1, 1993); Shaw PITTS S-1 (serial GS1, cancelled July 26, 1985). 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 N3GS: Accident on November 19, 1992 at Uvalde, 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: Beech B100 · operated under 091
THE PILOTS FAILURE TO GO AROUND. A FACTOR WAS HIS RESULTANT LONG LANDING AND DELAYED FLARE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW93LA040 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