{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1979-12-11","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-03-28","city":"HOOVER","country_code":"US","county_code":"073","cruise_speed_mph":162,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41533","engine_horsepower":310,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"TI0-540 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-03-28","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7103110","mode_s_code":"50773442","mode_s_hex":"A3F722","model":"PA-31-350","n_number":"N3548J","name":"CARDEN KEVIN","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Covington","damage":"SUBS","date":"2017-04-23","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN17LA166","probable_cause":"The pilot's improper fuel planning, which resulted in a total loss of power to both engines due to fuel exhaustion.","registration":"N3548J","state":"LA","summary":"Accident on April 23, 2017 at Covington, LA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N3548J is a Piper PA-31-350, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hoover, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 11, 1979.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Carden Kevin, an individual, certificate issued March 28, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated December 11, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31-8052027 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N3548J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150E (serial 15061248, cancelled April 28, 1971). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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 N3548J: Accident on April 23, 2017 at Covington, LA: 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":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":8,"serial_number":"31-8052027","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"AL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1800 HUMMINGBIRD LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00312863","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N3548J","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1979,"zip":"352262719"}