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N96MA

Piper PA-31T1

Valid Maryland

N96MA is a Piper PA-31T1, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 7 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Annapolis, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 31, 1978.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-31T1 · all PA-31T1s and related versions
Serial number
31T-7804005
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turboprop, 2 motors
Seats
7
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AD5AE1 (octal 53255341)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 17, 2024
Expires
May 31, 2031
Last FAA action
May 17, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · July 31, 1978
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00121146

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Goldielochs Air LLC
Type
Co-owned
Address
1000 Fairwinds Dr
Annapolis, MD 21409-4783
Co-owners
Delmarco LLC

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.

Earlier use of this number 2

1989-07-07Rockwell International Corp 695 · exported to Colombia · Valid registration
—Mitsubishi MU-2B · B

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N96MA, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Goldielochs Air LLC, a co-owned, certificate issued May 17, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31T-7804005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N96MA was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Rockwell International Corp 695 (serial 95072, cancelled July 7, 1989); Mitsubishi MU-2B (serial 011, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N96MA: Accident on April 1, 2026 at Ocean City, NJ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ERA26LA163Accident on April 1, 2026 at Ocean City, NJ: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA31T · operated under 091

On April 1, 2026, about 1635 eastern daylight time, a Piper PA-31T1, N96MA, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Ocean City, New Jersey. The pilot and passenger were not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 positioning flight. The pilot reported that the instrument flight rules (IFR) flight was uneventful from Gaithersburg, Maryland. The flight was cleared for a visual approach to runway 6 at Ocean City Municipal Airport (26N), Ocean City, New Jersey. The automated weather observation system (AWOS) reported the win…

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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