Piper Aircraft Inc PA 46-350P
N972DD is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA 46-350P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2014. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Lakala Aviation INC, a corporation in Vicksburg, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 5, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 28, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper Aircraft Inc
- Model
- PA 46-350P · all PA 46-350Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 4636637
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming TIO-540-AE2A · 350 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- AD8B62 (octal 53305542)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 5, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 28, 2014
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01158724
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lakala Aviation INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 12207 Sprinkle Rd
Vicksburg, MI 49097-8470
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N972DD, 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 Lakala Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 5, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 28, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4636637 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N972DD 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]
1 NTSB record under N972DD: Accident on September 16, 2020 at Jacksonville, TX: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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 PA46 · operated under 091
The student pilot’s failure to maintain control of the airplane during the landing approach and the exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack at low altitude resulting in an aerodynamic stall. Contributing was the instructor pilot’s failure to adequately monitor the student pilot’s actions during the approach.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data