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N7885Y

Piper PA-30

Valid Iowa

N7885Y 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 Garnavillo, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 18, 1966.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-30 · all PA-30s and related versions
Serial number
30-970
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
AAB15C (octal 52530534)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 12, 2023
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
February 12, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · January 18, 1966
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00315030

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kregel Steven
Type
Individual
Address
280 Grand Ridge Rim Way
Garnavillo, IA 52049-8280

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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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N7885Y, 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 Kregel Steven, an individual, certificate issued February 12, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated January 18, 1966, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30-970 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7885Y 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 N7885Y. 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 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