Piper Aircraft Inc PA-46-600TP
N980MA is a Piper Aircraft Inc PA-46-600TP, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2023. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Fountainblu LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 21, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 14, 2023.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 7:55 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper Aircraft Inc
- Model
- PA-46-600TP · all PA-46-600TPs 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. Pressurised cabin. This is how the Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 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
- 4698283
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- ADAC38 (octal 53326070)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 21, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2026
- 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 · December 14, 2023
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01425083
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fountainblu LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1521 Concord Pike Ste 201
Wilmington, DE 19803-3645
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
Connections how N980MA links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 1,693 registered
- Piper Aircraft Inc 1,442 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2,217 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Fountainblu LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, DE 7,373 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,952 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 39 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 466 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-46 Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and M-Class 262 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 8,208 reports since 1995
- Where N980MA is now · Last seen Thursday at 7:55 pm.
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The public federal record on N980MA, 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 Fountainblu LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 21, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 14, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4698283 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N980MA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fokker F.27MK 500 (serial 10431, cancelled August 23, 2013). 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 N980MA. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data