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N7494Y

Piper PA-30

Valid Georgia

N7494Y is a Piper PA-30, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mc Rae, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 15, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 28, 1964.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-30 · all PA-30s and related versions
Serial number
30-555
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1964
Cruising speed
139 mph
Transponder code
AA16F4 (octal 52413364)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 15, 2022
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · September 28, 1964
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00522687

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ray James O III
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 55192
Mc Rae, GA 31055-0192

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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 N7494Y, 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 Ray James O III, an individual, certificate issued December 15, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 28, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30-555 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7494Y 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 N7494Y: Accident on October 4, 2022 at Milan, GA: 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

ERA23LA005Accident on October 4, 2022 at Milan, GA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-30 · operated under 091

The pilot's inadequate preflight inspection, which resulted in a total loss of engine power during cruise flight due to fuel contamination.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data