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N827CM

Piper Aircraft Inc PA46-500TP

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTennessee

N827CM is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA46-500TP, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2007. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Patibrent Holdings LLC, an LLC in Bristol, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 27, 2007.

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Aircraft

Maker
Piper Aircraft Inc
Model
PA46-500TP · all PA46-500TPs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. Pressurised cabin. This is how the Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
4697310
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-42A · 850 hp
Seats
6
Year built
2007
Transponder code
AB4B1A (octal 52645432)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
July 29, 2026
Expires
July 31, 2033
Last FAA action
July 29, 2026
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 27, 2007
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00375539

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Patibrent Holdings LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
2151 Volunteer Pkwy
Bristol, TN 37620-6708

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

2002-08-28Schutte Michael J MS RYAN SPECIAL · Valid registration

Connections how N827CM links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Bristol, TN 19 aircraft registered in this town
  • Tennessee 6,518 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N827CM, 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 Patibrent Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 29, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated July 27, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4697310 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N827CM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Schutte Michael J MS RYAN SPECIAL (serial 001, cancelled August 28, 2002). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N827CM: Accident on May 23, 2002 at Anderson, IN: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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

CHI02FA140Accident on May 23, 2002 at Anderson, IN: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 001

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schutte Ms. Ryan Special · operated under 091

The pilot's failure to properly install the canard attach bolts prior to the flight and the resulting inflight separation of the canard.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data