Piper PA-23-250
N701DM is a Piper PA-23-250, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Pacific Fleet Aviation LLC, an LLC in Rochester, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 26, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 20, 1966.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-23-250 · all PA-23-250s 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-23 Apache and Aztec 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
- 27-3131
- 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
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- A9589C (octal 52254234)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 26, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 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 · January 20, 1966
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00112025
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pacific Fleet Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 25 Methodist Hill Dr
Rochester, NY 14623-4270
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N701DM links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-23 Apache and Aztec 1,315 registered
- Piper 44,844 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming TIO-540 series 5,073 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Pacific Fleet Aviation LLC 45 aircraft in the fleet
- Rochester, NY 176 aircraft registered in this town
- Frederick Douglass/Greater Rochester International · ROC
- New York 6,660 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-23 Apache and Aztec 76 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-23 Apache and Aztec 516 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-23 Apache and Aztec 569 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 N701DM, 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 Pacific Fleet Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 26, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 20, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 27-3131 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N701DM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mitsubishi MU-2B-20 (serial 149, cancelled December 12, 1991). 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 N701DM: Accident on February 28, 1989 at San Diego, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mitsubishi MU-2B-20F · operated under 091
PILOT INCAPACITATION FOR AN UNKNOWN REASON.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data