Piper PA-23-250
N900AM is a Piper PA-23-250, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Gimli Son LLC, an LLC in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 28, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying, dated July 24, 1998.
Where is it now Last seen Monday at 8:35 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-23-250 · all PA-23-250s 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-23 Apache and Aztec 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
- 27-7954014
- 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-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- AC6F38 (octal 53067470)
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 28, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 28, 2024
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Aerial surveyingFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 24, 1998
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00422786
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gimli Son 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
- 1525 NW 56Th St Hngr G
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309-2811
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N900AM links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-23 Apache and Aztec 1,315 registered
- Piper 44,845 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-540 series 4,222 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Gimli Son LLC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to April 25, 2027
- Fort Lauderdale, FL 608 aircraft registered in this town
- Fort Lauderdale Executive · FXE
- Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood International · FLL
- Downtown Fort Lauderdale Heliport · DT1
- Florida 21,717 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-23 Apache and Aztec 76 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-23 Apache and Aztec 516 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-23 Apache and Aztec 569 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540 series 49 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540 series 316 reports since 1995
- Where N900AM is now · Last seen Monday at 8:35 am.
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The public federal record on N900AM, 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 Gimli Son LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 28, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 24, 1998, 19 years after the 1979 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 27-7954014 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N900AM 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 N900AM: Incident on August 27, 2015 at Joliet, IL: no injuries, minor 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-23-250 · operated under 091
A bird strike.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data