Piper Aircraft Inc PA46R-350T
N488EA is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA46R-350T, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2008. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Morgan Hill, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 12, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 29, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper Aircraft Inc
- Model
- PA46R-350T · all PA46R-350Ts and related versions
- Serial number
- 4692016
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TIO-540-AE2A · 350 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A606B6 (octal 51403266)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 12, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 29, 2008
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00469419
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Christopher Jason Lee
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 445 Valley Oak Dr
Morgan Hill, CA 95037-9229
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N488EA, 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 Christopher Jason Lee, an individual, certificate issued May 12, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 29, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4692016 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N488EA 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 N488EA: Accident on June 5, 2012 at Cameron Park, CA: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper Aircraft INC PA46R-350T · operated under 091
The fatigue failure of the nose landing gear actuator attach foot during the landing roll. Contributing to the accident was the non-compliance with the manufacturer’s service bulletin.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR12LA261 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