Piper Aircraft Inc PA 46-350P
N451MA is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA 46-350P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Upward Aviation LLC, an LLC in Bridgeville, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 24, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 29, 2019.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper Aircraft Inc
- Model
- PA 46-350P · all PA 46-350Ps 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. Pressurised cabin. This is how the Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 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
- 4636541
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Lycoming TIO-540-AE2A · 350 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A576E7 (octal 51273347)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 24, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 24, 2024
- 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 · January 29, 2019
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01095197
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Upward Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 18949 Maranatha Way
Bridgeville, DE 19933-4057
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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
Connections how N451MA links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 1,692 registered
- Piper Aircraft Inc 1,443 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming TIO-540-AE2A 488 aircraft with this engine series · 350 hp
- Type certificate A25SO · held by Piper Aircraft INC
- Upward Aviation LLC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Bridgeville, DE 5 aircraft registered in this town
- Delaware 10,952 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 39 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 466 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 262 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming TIO-540-AE2A 31 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming TIO-540-AE2A 109 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N451MA.json.
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The public federal record on N451MA, 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 Upward Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 24, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 29, 2019, 7 years after the 2012 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4636541 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N451MA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: American Champion Aircraft 8KCAB (serial 907-2002, cancelled February 8, 2013); Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 (serial 1532 SA, cancelled December 16, 1981). 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 N451MA: Accident on April 16, 2024 at Hartsburg, MO: 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: Piper Aircraft INC PA 46-350P · operated under 091
The pilot’s encounter with convective weather conditions, which resulted in a loss of airplane control, the exceedance of the airplane’s never exceed speed, and the resulting overload failure of the horizontal stabilizer and subsequent failure of the airplane’s wings.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data