Piper PA46-500TP
N406CD is a Piper PA46-500TP, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2001. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Gold Sky LLC, an LLC in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 27, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA46-500TP · all PA46-500TPs and related versions
- Serial number
- 4697046
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A4C321 (octal 51141441)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 18, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 18, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 27, 2001
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00353624
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gold Sky LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 6616 Gulton Ct NE Ste 90
Albuquerque, NM 87109-4452
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N406CD, 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 Gold Sky LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 18, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 27, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4697046 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N406CD 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]
1 NTSB record under N406CD: Incident on July 7, 2014 at Denver, CO: no injuries, minor 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: Piper PA46 500TP · operated under 091
The pilots' incorrect activation of the Manual Override Lever, during ground operation, in an attempt to correct a sub-idle speed condition of the engine, resulting in an over-temperature of the CT blades, their subsequent distress and failure of the engine. Contributing to the incident was: The incorrect guidance of the Piper Meridian Pilots' Operating Handbook which, contrary to the engine manufacturer's recommendation, allowed the operation of the Manual Over ride Lever during ground operation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ENG14IA018 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data