{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2001-03-27","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-03-18","city":"ALBUQUERQUE","country_code":"US","county_code":"001","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52032","engine_horsepower":750,"engine_maker":"P&W","engine_model":"PT6A SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-03-18","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7104622","mode_s_code":"51141441","mode_s_hex":"A4C321","model":"PA46-500TP","n_number":"N406CD","name":"GOLD SKY LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Denver","damage":"MINR","date":"2014-07-07","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ENG14IA018","probable_cause":"The pilots' incorrect activation of the Manual Override Lever, during ground operation, in an attempt to correct a sub-idle speed condition of the engine,  resulting in an over-temperature of the CT blades, their subsequent distress and failure of the engine.\n\nContributing to the incident was:\n\nThe incorrect guidance of the Piper Meridian Pilots' Operating Handbook which, contrary to the engine manufacturer's recommendation, allowed the operation of the Manual Over ride Lever during ground operation.","registration":"N406CD","state":"CO","summary":"Incident on July 7, 2014 at Denver, CO: no injuries, minor damage.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N406CD is a Piper PA46-500TP, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2001. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Gold Sky LLC, an LLC in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 27, 2001.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Gold Sky LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 18, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated March 27, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4697046 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N406CD 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 N406CD: Incident on July 7, 2014 at Denver, CO: no injuries, minor 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":6,"serial_number":"4697046","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NM","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"6616 GULTON CT NE STE 90","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00353624","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N406CD","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2001,"zip":"871094452"}