{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2017-01-18","airworthiness_ops":"Research and development","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-04-04","city":"BRANDON","country_code":"US","county_code":"121","cruise_speed_mph":162,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41976","engine_horsepower":350,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"TIO-540-J2B","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-08-24","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7103110","mode_s_code":"50642671","mode_s_hex":"A345B9","model":"PA-31-350","n_number":"N31NW","name":"ALPHA WHISKEY 2 LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Baltimore","damage":"SUBS","date":"2011-02-11","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA11LA141","probable_cause":"An in-flight overload failure of the left elevator inboard balance weight rib for undetermined reasons.","registration":"N31NW","state":"MD","summary":"Accident on February 11, 2011 at Baltimore, MD: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N31NW is a Piper PA-31-350, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Alpha Whiskey 2 LLC, an LLC in Brandon, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 4, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated January 18, 2017.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Alpha Whiskey 2 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 4, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 18, 2017, 36 years after the 1981 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 318152139 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N31NW according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N31NW: Accident on February 11, 2011 at Baltimore, MD: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":8,"serial_number":"318152139","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MS","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"101 HIGHPOINTE CT STE C","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00383676","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N31NW","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1981,"zip":"390427041"}