Piper PA-31-350
N97MA is a Piper PA-31-350, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Dodson International Parts INC, a corporation in Rantoul, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 16, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-31-350 · all PA-31-350s and related versions
- Serial number
- 31-7552006
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 162 mph
- Transponder code
- AD8260 (octal 53301140)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- April 17, 2000
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 16, 1998
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00333736
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dodson International Parts INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2155 Vermont Rd
Rantoul, KS 66079-9014
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N97MA, 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 Dodson International Parts INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 16, 1998, 23 years after the 1975 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31-7552006 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N97MA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Air Tractor Inc AT-301 (serial 3010631, cancelled May 30, 1996). 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 N97MA: Accident on July 26, 1999 at Salina, KS: 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 PA-31-350 · operated under 091
the inadequate preflight inspection by the pilot. Factors to the accident were fuel exhaustion and the operation of the aircraft with known deficiencies in equipment by the pilot.
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 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