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N506C

Piper PA32-301XTC

N506C is a Piper PA32-301XTC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 7 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 7, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 12, 2004.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA32-301XTC · all PA32-301XTCs and related versions
Serial number
3255015
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TIO 540 SER · 250 hp
Seats
7
Year built
2004
Transponder code
A6506C (octal 51450154)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 7, 2024
Expires
August 31, 2031
Last FAA action
August 7, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · March 12, 2004
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00089079

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Vail Jeffrey
Type
Individual
Address
628 Bayard Rd
Kennett Square, PA 19348-2505

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 2

2001-11-13Cessna 208B · exported to Venezuela · Valid registration
1965-05-18Stinson 108-3 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N506C, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Vail Jeffrey, an individual, certificate issued August 7, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated March 12, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3255015 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N506C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 208B (serial 208B-0690, cancelled November 13, 2001); Stinson 108-3 (serial 108-3506, cancelled May 18, 1965). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N506C: Accident on October 31, 2006 at San Marcos, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

DFW07LA021Accident on October 31, 2006 at San Marcos, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA32-301XTC · operated under 091

The pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW07LA021 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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