Piper PA-23-250
N40267 is a Piper PA-23-250, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Island Birds INC, a corporation in St Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 15, 2017 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Island Bird, Inc., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-23-250 · all PA-23-250s 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-23 Apache and Aztec 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
- 27-7305080
- 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
- 6
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- A4B759 (octal 51133531)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 15, 2017
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 12, 2024
- 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
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00021044
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Island Birds 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
- 8201 Lindberg Bay
St Thomas, VI 00802-6000
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 N40267 links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-23 Apache and Aztec 1,315 registered
- Piper 44,839 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Island Bird, Inc. · charter operator
- Lycoming TIO-540 series 5,074 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Island Birds INC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- St Thomas, VI 52 aircraft registered in this town
- U.S. Virgin Islands 91 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-23 Apache and Aztec 76 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-23 Apache and Aztec 516 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-23 Apache and Aztec 569 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
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The public federal record on N40267, 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 Island Birds INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 15, 2017, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 27-7305080 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N40267 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 N40267. 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 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 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 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data