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N7865Y

Piper PA-30

Valid Illinois

N7865Y is a Piper PA-30, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Grant Park, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 20, 2004 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 23, 1965.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-30 · all PA-30s and related versions
Serial number
30-948
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1965
Cruising speed
139 mph
Transponder code
AAA9EE (octal 52524756)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 20, 2004
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · December 23, 1965
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00035030

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mussman Craig L
Type
Individual
Address
10250 N 16000E Rd
Grant Park, IL 60940-5151

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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 N7865Y, 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 Mussman Craig L, an individual, certificate issued May 20, 2004, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated December 23, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30-948 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7865Y 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 N7865Y: Accident on November 10, 1987 at Decatur, IL: 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

CHI88LA022Accident on November 10, 1987 at Decatur, IL: no injuries, substantial damage.

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

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI88LA022 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