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N7986Y

Piper PA-30

Pending South Dakota

N7986Y 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 Aberdeen, South Dakota. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 21, 1966.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-30 · all PA-30s and related versions
Serial number
30-1089
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
AAD8FE (octal 52554376)

Registration

Status
Registration pending
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
July 29, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · April 21, 1966
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00825250

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Registration Pending
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 947
Aberdeen, SD 57402-0947

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N7986Y, 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.

ATTENTIONRegistration and identity

Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated April 21, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30-1089 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7986Y 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 N7986Y. 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