Piper PA-31-350
N4078J is a Piper PA-31-350, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Star Marianas Air INC, a corporation in Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 31, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 26, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-31-350 · all PA-31-350s and related versions
- Serial number
- 31-8152057
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 162 mph
- Transponder code
- A4CA1B (octal 51145033)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 31, 2021
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 26, 1981
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00261244
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Star Marianas Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 520461
Tinian, MP 96952-0461
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4078J, 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 Star Marianas Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 31, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 26, 1981, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31-8152057 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4078J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150G (serial 150-65378, cancelled January 19, 1971). 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 N4078J: Accident on August 30, 2017 at Saipan: 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: Piper PA 31 · operated under 135
Impact with multiple birds while retracting the landing gear, which resulted in the subsequent failure of the right inboard main landing gear door actuator hose and prevented the pilot from being able to extend the landing gear.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA17CA570 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