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A Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class, the same model family as N717GM
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026
N717GM

Piper PA 46-350P

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTennessee

N717GM is a Piper PA 46-350P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Albatross Aviation LLC, an LLC in Tazewell, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 15, 2020 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 17, 1997.

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA 46-350P · all PA 46-350Ps and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. Pressurised cabin. This is how the Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 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
46-36118
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
6
Year built
1997
Transponder code
A996B0 (octal 52313260)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
October 15, 2020
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 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 · September 17, 1997
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00096691

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Albatross 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
1660 Goins Chapel Rd
Tazewell, TN 37879-4754

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N717GM links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Lycoming TIO-540 series 5,074 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
  • Type certificate A25SO · held by Piper Aircraft INC
Owner
Place
Live

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The public federal record on N717GM, 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 Albatross Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 15, 2020, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 17, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 46-36118 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N717GM 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N717GM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data