Piper PA-31T
N53TA is a Piper PA-31T, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1978. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Indiana Paging Network INC, a corporation in La Porte, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 1998 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 31, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-31T · all PA-31Ts and related versions
- Serial number
- 31T-7820083
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · U/A Canada PT6A-27-28 · 680 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 162 mph
- Transponder code
- A6AFBE (octal 51527676)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 2, 1998
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 31, 1978
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00302665
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Indiana Paging Network INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 6745 W Johnson Rd
La Porte, IN 46350-8293
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N53TA, 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 Indiana Paging Network INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 2, 1998, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 31, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31T-7820083 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N53TA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: North American Aviation Inc NAVION 4 (serial NAV-4-944, cancelled April 29, 1965). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N53TA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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