Piper PA-31-350
N450KC is a Piper PA-31-350, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Charles City Aeronautics INC, a corporation in Charles City, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 11, 2006 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 26, 1978.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Charles City Aeronautics, Inc., so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen October 18 at 7:54 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-31-350 · all PA-31-350s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 31-7852092
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 162 mph
- Transponder code
- A57300 (octal 51271400)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 11, 2006
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 26, 1978
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00602724
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Charles City Aeronautics INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3129 Highway 18
Charles City, IA 50616-8845
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.
Connections how N450KC links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain 934 registered
- Piper 44,848 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Charles City Aeronautics, Inc. · charter operator
- Lycoming TIO-540 series 5,073 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Charles City Aeronautics INC 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to November 14, 2026
- Charles City, IA 28 aircraft registered in this town
- Northeast Iowa Regional · CCY
- Iowa 4,510 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain 114 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain 3,365 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain 535 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming TIO-540 series 41 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming TIO-540 series 363 reports since 1995
- Where N450KC is now · Last seen October 18 at 7:54 pm.
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The public federal record on N450KC, 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 Charles City Aeronautics INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 11, 2006, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 26, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31-7852092 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N450KC 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N450KC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data