Piper PA-31T1
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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-31T1 · all PA-31T1s 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-31 Navajo and Chieftain 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
- 31T-7804005
- 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
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors
- Seats
- 7
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AD5AE1 (octal 53255341)
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 17, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 17, 2024
- 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 31, 1978
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00121146
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Goldielochs Air LLC
- 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
- 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
Connections how N96MA links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain 934 registered
- Piper 44,844 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Annapolis, MD 64 aircraft registered in this town
- Lee Airport · ANP
- Maryland 2,347 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain 114 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain 3,365 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-31 Navajo and Chieftain 535 supplemental type certificates
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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.
Valid registration to Goldielochs Air LLC, a co-owned, certificate issued May 17, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31T-7804005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
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]
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 N96MA: Accident on April 1, 2026 at Ocean City, NJ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
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
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data