Piper PA-32R-301
N9236J is a Piper PA-32R-301, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1993. It has 7 seats. It is registered to Thunderbird Air LLC, an LLC in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2018 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 18, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-32R-301 · all PA-32R-301s and related versions
- Serial number
- 3213067
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- ACCC82 (octal 53146202)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 2, 2018
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 18, 1993
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00774592
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thunderbird Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4355 Airwest Dr
Grand Rapids, MI 49512
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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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9236J, 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 Thunderbird Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 2, 2018, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 18, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3213067 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9236J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-180 (serial 28-3309, cancelled November 21, 1969). 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 N9236J: Accident on April 12, 2024 at Knoxville, TN: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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-32R-301 · operated under 091
The pilot’s decision to depart into an area of instrument meteorological and icing conditions, which resulted in loss of airplane control and a subsequent in-flight breakup.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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