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N698VW

Piper PA-31-350

Valid New York

N698VW is a Piper PA-31-350, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in Queens Village, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 8, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated January 15, 1974.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-31-350 · all PA-31-350s and related versions
Serial number
31-7405408
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
Seats
8
Year built
1974
Cruising speed
162 mph
Transponder code
A94A5E (octal 52245136)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 8, 2015
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · January 15, 1974
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00502526

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sheppard Louis A
Type
Individual
Address
22001 101St Ave
Queens Village, NY 11429-1645

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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N698VW, 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 Sheppard Louis A, an individual, certificate issued April 8, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated January 15, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31-7405408 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N698VW 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 N698VW: Accident on November 6, 2002 at Kerrville, TX: no injuries, substantial 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

FTW03LA046Accident on November 6, 2002 at Kerrville, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-31-350 · operated under 091

The propeller shaft seal leak resulting in an in-flight fire.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW03LA046 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 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