Piper PA-31-350
N40978 is a Piper PA-31-350, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Dodson International Parts INC, a corporation in Rantoul, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 13, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-31-350 · all PA-31-350s and related versions
- Serial number
- 31-8152199
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 162 mph
- Transponder code
- A4D17E (octal 51150576)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- September 21, 2007
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 13, 1981
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00141304
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dodson International Parts INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2155 Vermont Rd
Rantoul, KS 66079-9014
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N40978, 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 Dodson International Parts INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 13, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31-8152199 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40978 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 28-7405080, cancelled February 24, 1975). 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]
2 NTSB records under N40978: Accident on July 11, 2006 at Indianapolis, IN: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on March 2, 1989 at Toms River, NJ: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-31-350 · operated under 135
The failure of the tug driver to maintain clearance from the airplane taxiing on an active taxiway. A factor was the night conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI06CA181 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-31-350 · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN AIRSPEED AND CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT, AND HIS EXCEEDING THE DESIGN STRESS LIMITS OF THE AIRCRAFT. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: AUTOPLT MALFUNCTION DUE TO IMPROPER INSTALLATION BY MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL AND THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO PREFLIGHT THE AUTOPILOT BEFORE USING IT IN FLIGHT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC89FA093 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