Piper PA-30
N8629Y is a Piper PA-30, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Richmond, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 4, 2009 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 20, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-30 · all PA-30s and related versions
- Serial number
- 30-1770
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 139 mph
- Transponder code
- ABD9EF (octal 52754757)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 4, 2009
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 20, 1969
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00152471
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Farris Mark E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1049 Malachi Dr
Richmond, KY 40475-8819
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N8629Y, 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 Farris Mark E, an individual, certificate issued September 4, 2009, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 20, 1969, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30-1770 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8629Y 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]
1 NTSB record under N8629Y: Accident on June 24, 2000 at Key West, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Piper PA-30 · operated under 091
A landing gear collapse resulting from the pilot's unsuccessful attempt to complete the manual gear extension due to physical strength overload. A factor was the complete electrical system failure during cruise flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL00LA073 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data