Piper PA-31T
N970PS is a Piper PA-31T, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1979. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in Huron, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 28, 2011 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 21, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-31T · all PA-31Ts and related versions
- Serial number
- 31T-8020023
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6A-60A · 1050 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 162 mph
- Transponder code
- AD84FB (octal 53302373)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 28, 2011
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 21, 1979
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00472954
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Krech Greg Trustee
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1605 Colorado Ave NW
Huron, SD 57350-5011
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N970PS, 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 Krech Greg Trustee, an individual, certificate issued June 28, 2011, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 21, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31T-8020023 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N970PS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 727-14 (serial 18908, cancelled October 16, 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N970PS. 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 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 August 27, 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