Piper PA-46-310P
N744DD is a Piper PA-46-310P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in New Orleans, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 24, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 25, 1984.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Christopher Higgins, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen today at 11:45 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-46-310P · all PA-46-310Ps 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. 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
- 46-8408075
- 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 · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- AA01B5 (octal 52400665)
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 24, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 24, 2025
- 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 25, 1984
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00540394
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Taffet Jay
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 236 Stafford Pl
New Orleans, LA 70124-2112
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 N744DD links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 1,692 registered
- Piper 44,848 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Christopher Higgins · charter operator
- Continental IO-520 series 9,485 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- New Orleans, LA 161 aircraft registered in this town
- Lakefront Airport · NEW
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans International · MSY
- Louisiana 3,734 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 39 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 466 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 262 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520 series 465 reports since 1995
- Where N744DD is now · Last seen today at 11:45 am.
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The public federal record on N744DD, 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 Taffet Jay, an individual, certificate issued July 24, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 25, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 46-8408075 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N744DD 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N744DD. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data