Piper PA-32-260
N56309 is a Piper PA-32-260, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in St Joseph, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 16, 1993 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 9, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32-260 · all PA-32-260s and related versions
- Serial number
- 327300059
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-540 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 126 mph
- Transponder code
- A73489 (octal 51632211)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 16, 1993
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 9, 1973
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00650246
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Des Jardins Richard T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3365 W Valley View
St Joseph, MI 49085
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N56309, 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 Des Jardins Richard T, an individual, certificate issued June 16, 1993, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 9, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 327300059 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N56309 according to the deregistered file. [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 N56309. 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