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N8705Y

Piper PA-30

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N8705Y is a Piper PA-30, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Qualitair LLC Trustee, an LLC in Michelstadt. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 25, 1969.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-30 · all PA-30s and related versions
Serial number
30-1854
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1969
Cruising speed
139 mph
Transponder code
ABF974 (octal 52774564)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 28, 2026
Expires
January 31, 2033
Last FAA action
January 28, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · February 25, 1969
FAA region
European
FAA record id
00212281

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Qualitair LLC Trustee
Type
LLC
Address
Flugplatz Michelstadt
Mossauer Strasse 17
Michelstadt, 64720

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N8705Y, 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 Qualitair LLC Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued January 28, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated February 25, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 30-1854 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8705Y 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 N8705Y. 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