Piper PA-23-250
N65DF is a Piper PA-23-250, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Aerospace Trust Management LLC Trustee, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 11, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-23-250 · all PA-23-250s and related versions
- Serial number
- 27-2553
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming IO-540-C4B5 · 250 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- A88AB2 (octal 52105262)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 2, 2021
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 11, 2020
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00953265
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aerospace Trust Management LLC Trustee
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1013 Centre Rd Ste 403A
Wilmington, DE 19805-1270
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N65DF, 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 Aerospace Trust Management LLC Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued March 2, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 11, 2020, 56 years after the 1964 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 27-2553 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N65DF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Franklin Dennis W DRIFTER XP503 (serial DR-0365, cancelled July 15, 2013). 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]
1 NTSB record under N65DF: Accident on July 4, 1988 at Lake Wales, FL: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Franklin DRIFTER XP-503 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA88FA213 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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