Piper PA-32-300
N42CJ is a Piper PA-32-300, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Discovery Bay, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 23, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 8, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32-300 · all PA-32-300s and related versions
- Serial number
- 32-7940149
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-K1G5 · 300 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A4F981 (octal 51174601)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 23, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 8, 1979
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00750373
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Newman Robert A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 5580 Beaver Ln
Discovery Bay, CA 94505-1211 - Co-owners
- Newman Katya B
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 N42CJ, 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 Newman Robert A, a co-owned, certificate issued May 23, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 8, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 32-7940149 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N42CJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Crowser De Jay AVID MK 3.75 (serial 763, cancelled March 16, 1994). 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 N42CJ: Accident on July 5, 1993 at Philip, SD: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Crowser AVID MK 3.75 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S SELECTION OF UNSUITABLE TERRAIN FOR TAKEOFF, AND THE PILOT INADVERTENTLY STALLING THE AIRPLANE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI93DTK01 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