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Piper PA-39
N8945Y is a Piper PA-39, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Pipers Are Still Better LLC, an LLC in Carson City, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 25, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Where is it now Last seen today at 3:55 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-39 · all PA-39s 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-39 Twin Comanche C/R 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
- 39106
- 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
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 183 mph
- Transponder code
- AC574E (octal 53053516)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 25, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 25, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00741641
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pipers Are Still Better 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
- 3570 Shawnee Dr
Carson City, NV 89705-6946
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 N8945Y links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-39 Twin Comanche C/R 82 registered
- Piper 44,842 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pipers Are Still Better LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Carson City, NV 967 aircraft registered in this town
- Carson City Airport · CXP
- Nevada 4,591 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-39 Twin Comanche C/R 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-39 Twin Comanche C/R 17 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-39 Twin Comanche C/R 312 supplemental type certificates
- Where N8945Y is now · Last seen today at 3:55 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N8945Y.json.
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The public federal record on N8945Y, 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 Pipers Are Still Better LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 25, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 39106 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8945Y 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 N8945Y. 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 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data