Piper PA-31-310
N669CW is a Piper PA-31-310, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Precision Air INC, a corporation in Nelson Lagoon, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 17, 2017 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 16, 1979.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Precision Air Inc, so it can be flown for hire.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-31-310 · all PA-31-310s 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. This is how the Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain 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
- 31-514
- 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 TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 162 mph
- Transponder code
- A8D5EF (octal 52152757)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 17, 2017
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- 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 · February 16, 1979
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00401331
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Precision Air INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 937
Nelson Lagoon, AK 99571-0937
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.
Connections how N669CW links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain 934 registered
- Piper 44,838 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Precision Air Inc · charter operator
- Lycoming TIO-540 series 5,073 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Precision Air INC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Nelson Lagoon, AK 1 aircraft registered in this town
- Nelson Lagoon Airport · OUL
- Alaska 9,142 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain 114 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain 3,365 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain 535 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming TIO-540 series 41 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming TIO-540 series 363 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N669CW, 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 Precision Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 17, 2017, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 16, 1979, 10 years after the 1969 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 31-514 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N669CW 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]
1 NTSB record under N669CW: Accident on January 12, 2026 at Anchorage, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-31-310 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data