Piper PA-30
N8053U 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 Cresson, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 12, 2015 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 12, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-30 · all PA-30s and related versions
- Serial number
- 301273
- 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
- AAF744 (octal 52573504)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 12, 2015
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 12, 1998
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00453846
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Malcomson Kenneth L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 150 Constellation Dr
Cresson, TX 76035-5862
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.
Earlier use of this number 3
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8053U, 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 Malcomson Kenneth L, an individual, certificate issued January 12, 2015, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 12, 1998, 32 years after the 1966 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 301273 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8053U was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Beech C90A (serial LJ1307, cancelled August 15, 1995); Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 1199, cancelled November 29, 1989); Douglas DC-8F-54 (serial 46010, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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]
1 NTSB record under N8053U: Accident on January 11, 1983 at Detroit, MI: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mcdonnell Douglas DC-8-54F · operated under 121
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DCA83AA014 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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