Piper PA-31-310
N87TS is a Piper PA-31-310, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Rwr Air INC, a corporation in Tok, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 10, 2002 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 6, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-31-310 · all PA-31-310s and related versions
- Serial number
- 31-7300969
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 162 mph
- Transponder code
- ABF5B7 (octal 52772667)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 10, 2002
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 6, 1983
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00171044
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rwr Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 539
Tok, AK 99780-0539
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 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N87TS, 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 Rwr Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 10, 2002, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 6, 1983, 10 years after the 1973 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 31-7300969 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N87TS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sittel STEEN SKYBOLT (serial 371583, cancelled May 24, 1973). 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 N87TS: Accident on May 20, 1989 at Tok Junction, AK: 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-31 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO LOWER THE LANDING GEAR FOR LANDING. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS HIS FAILURE TO USE A CHECKLIST.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC89LA078 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