Piper AEROSTAR 601P
N54AJ is a Piper AEROSTAR 601P, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Springville, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 23, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 19, 2000.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- AEROSTAR 601P · all AEROSTAR 601Ps and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. The Ted Smith Aerostar. This is how the Piper AEROSTAR 601 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
- 61P-0769-8063383
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A6D59C (octal 51552634)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 23, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 26, 2025
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 19, 2000
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00171562
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dietz Daniel James
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1106 Paralta Rd
Springville, IA 52336-9640
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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 2
Connections how N54AJ links to the rest of the register
- Piper AEROSTAR 601 117 registered
- Piper 44,842 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-540 series 4,222 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Springville, IA 4 aircraft registered in this town
- Iowa 4,514 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540 series 49 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540 series 316 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N54AJ, 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 Dietz Daniel James, an individual, certificate issued September 23, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 19, 2000, 20 years after the 1980 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 61P-0769-8063383 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N54AJ was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 206B-III (serial 2922, cancelled November 9, 1993); Bell 206B (serial 4017, cancelled October 21, 1992). 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 N54AJ. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data