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Piper PA-39
N8971Y is a Piper PA-39, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cazenovia, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; weather control, dated April 27, 1973.
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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
- 39-134
- 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
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 183 mph
- Transponder code
- AC61E7 (octal 53060747)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 10, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2024
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; Weather controlFAA certificate purpose code 136 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 27, 1973
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00061581
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Laubscher John e
- 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
- 3938 Nelson Heights Rd
Cazenovia, NY 13035-9408
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N8971Y 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
- Lycoming IO-320 series 1,708 aircraft with this engine series · 150 hp
- Cazenovia, NY 19 aircraft registered in this town
- New York 6,663 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
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-320 series 31 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-320 series 43 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N8971Y, 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 Laubscher John e, an individual, certificate issued June 10, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; weather control, dated April 27, 1973, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 39-134 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8971Y 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 N8971Y. 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