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A Piper PA-24 Comanche, the same model family as N55CY
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026
N55CY

Piper PA-24-250

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesSouth Carolina

N55CY is a Piper PA-24-250, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Bonneville Aero Works LLC, an LLC in Greenville, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 6, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 11, 1961.

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-24-250 · all PA-24-250s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-24 Comanche 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
24-2674
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1961
Cruising speed
135 mph
Transponder code
A6FD5B (octal 51576533)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 6, 2025
Expires
December 31, 2032
Last FAA action
December 6, 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 11, 1961
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00002607

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bonneville Aero Works LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
14 Jervey Ave
Greenville, SC 29607-2309

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N55CY links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N55CY, 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 Bonneville Aero Works LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 6, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated April 11, 1961, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24-2674 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N55CY according to the deregistered file. [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 N55CY. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data