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N640BD

Piper PA 46-350P

N640BD is a Piper PA 46-350P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1990. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Edair LLC, an LLC in Newport, Rhode Island. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 16, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 9, 2001.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA 46-350P · all PA 46-350Ps and related versions
Serial number
4622095
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1990
Transponder code
A86558 (octal 52062530)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 16, 2020
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
April 14, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · March 9, 2001
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00545402

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Edair LLC
Type
LLC
Address
60 Kay St
Newport, RI 02840-2846

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.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N640BD, 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 Edair LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 16, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 9, 2001, 11 years after the 1990 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4622095 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N640BD 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N640BD: Incident on October 8, 2013 at Tallahassee, FL: no injuries, minor damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ERA14IA019Incident on October 8, 2013 at Tallahassee, FL: no injuries, minor damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA 46 350P · operated under 091

The failure of the nose landing gear (NLG) actuator attachment bolt due to fatigue for reasons that could not be determined during postincident examination, which resulted in the NLG collapsing during landing.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data