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Piper PA-30
N83BW 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 Pacheco, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 17, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 14, 1965.
Where is it now Last seen October 12 at 5:34 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-30 · all PA-30s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche 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
- 30-888
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 139 mph
- Transponder code
- AB562F (octal 52653057)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 17, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 17, 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 14, 1965
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00213441
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Johnson Nathan D
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 130 Carriage Ln
Pacheco, CA 94553-5581
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.
Connections how N83BW links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche 880 registered
- Piper 44,845 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-320 series 1,708 aircraft with this engine series · 150 hp
- Type certificate A1EA · held by Piper Aircraft INC
- Pacheco, CA 2 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,708 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche 41 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche 163 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-30 Twin Comanche 380 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-320 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-320 series 43 reports since 1995
- Where N83BW is now · Last seen October 12 at 5:34 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N83BW.json.
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The public federal record on N83BW, 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 Johnson Nathan D, an individual, certificate issued January 17, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 14, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30-888 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N83BW according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N83BW. 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 November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data