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N53516

Piper PA46-500TP

Valid Oregon

N53516 is a Piper PA46-500TP, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2002. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Flight Group LLC, an LLC in Bend, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 6, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 15, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA46-500TP · all PA46-500TPs and related versions
Serial number
4697132
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turboprop, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
Seats
6
Year built
2002
Transponder code
A6C59A (octal 51542632)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 6, 2022
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · June 15, 2002
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00517361

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Flight Group LLC
Type
LLC
Address
18845 Pinehurst Rd
Bend, OR 97703-5236

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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 1

1948-03-30Taylorcraft DCO-65 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N53516, 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 Flight Group LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 6, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated June 15, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4697132 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N53516 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft DCO-65 (serial 6255, cancelled March 30, 1948). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N53516. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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