Piper PA-31-350
N40872 is a Piper PA-31-350, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Ole South Aviators LLC, an LLC in Athens, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for other; weather control, dated June 3, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-31-350 · all PA-31-350s and related versions
- Serial number
- 31-8152134
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 162 mph
- Transponder code
- A4CDC1 (octal 51146701)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 9, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Other; Weather control · June 3, 1994
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00741284
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ole South Aviators LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3900 Atlanta Hwy
Athens, GA 30606-0811
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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 N40872, 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 Ole South Aviators LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 9, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for other; weather control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31-8152134 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40872 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 28-7425183, cancelled April 29, 1974); Piper J5A (serial 5-1177, cancelled August 13, 1958). 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 N40872: Accident on April 13, 1990 at Willow, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-18 · operated under 091
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Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC90LA054 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