New Piper PA46-350P
N956AD is a New Piper PA46-350P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Fargo, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 28, 2006.
Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 3:04 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- New Piper
- Model
- PA46-350P · all PA46-350Ps 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. Pressurised cabin. This is how the Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 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
- 4636385
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Lycoming TIO-540-AE2A · 350 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- AD4AF5 (octal 53245365)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 21, 2021
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 28, 2006
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00255129
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Joel W Nikle
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1607 39Th Ave S
Fargo, ND 58104-6313 - Co-owners
- Rachel L Nikle
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 N956AD links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 1,692 registered
- New Piper 24 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming TIO-540-AE2A 488 aircraft with this engine series · 350 hp
- Type certificate A25SO · held by Piper Aircraft INC
- Fargo, ND 211 aircraft registered in this town
- Hector International · FAR
- West Fargo Municipal · D54
- North Dakota 2,495 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 39 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 466 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 262 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming TIO-540-AE2A 31 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming TIO-540-AE2A 109 reports since 1995
- Where N956AD is now · Last seen October 17 at 3:04 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N956AD.json.
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The public federal record on N956AD, 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 Joel W Nikle, a co-owned, certificate issued August 21, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 28, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4636385 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N956AD 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 N956AD. 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 October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data