Piper PA-30
N7974Y is a Piper PA-30, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hackberry, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 22, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 22, 1966. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-30 · all PA-30s and related versions
- Serial number
- 30-1073
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 139 mph
- Transponder code
- AAD501 (octal 52552401)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 22, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 22, 1966
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00085270
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hughes Frank H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 213 Johnny Benoit Rd
Hackberry, LA 70645-3806
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 1
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The public federal record on N7974Y, 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 Hughes Frank H, an individual, certificate issued May 22, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 22, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30-1073 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7974Y according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 4, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N7974Y. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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