Piper PA-23-160
N400MJ is a Piper PA-23-160, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Tehachapi, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 10, 2021 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 26, 1987.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-23-160 · all PA-23-160s and related versions
- Serial number
- 23-1627
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- A4ADBD (octal 51126675)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 10, 2021
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 26, 1987
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00590842
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Haney Michael W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 21108 Indian Wells Dr
Tehachapi, CA 93561-8034
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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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N400MJ, 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 Haney Michael W, an individual, certificate issued November 10, 2021, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [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 23-1627 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N400MJ was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bombardier Inc CL-600-2B19 (serial 7309, cancelled February 20, 2007); Air Tractor Inc AT-400 (serial 400-0676, cancelled May 8, 2000). 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 N400MJ: Accident on May 25, 1999 at Elkhart, KS: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Air Tractor AT-400 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate in-flight planning/decision and his inadvertent flight into instrument meteorological conditions which resulted in spatial disorientation and subsequent loss of aircraft control. Contributing to the accident was the poor weather conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI99FA165 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