Piper PA-11
N4681M is a Piper PA-11, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Scootair LLC, an LLC in Alburgh, Vermont. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2018 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 29, 1955.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-11 · all PA-11s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Piper PA-11 Cub Special 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
- 11-190
- 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 · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A5B9DA (octal 51334732)
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 11, 2018
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 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 · December 29, 1955
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00203334
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scootair 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
- 90 Poor Farm Rd
Alburgh, VT 05440-9682
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 N4681M links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-11 Cub Special 443 registered
- Piper 44,847 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental A65 / C65 series 7,967 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Scootair LLC 17 aircraft in the fleet
- Alburgh, VT 25 aircraft registered in this town
- Vermont 675 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-11 Cub Special 17 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-11 Cub Special 8 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-11 Cub Special 179 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N4681M, 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 Scootair LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 11, 2018, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 29, 1955, 8 years after the 1947 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 11-190 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4681M 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]
1 NTSB record under N4681M: Accident on September 19, 2016 at Grand Isle, VT: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA 11 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed and his exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle-of-attack during a simulated engine failure and forced landing with a tailwind, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data