{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1981-01-26","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-03-31","city":"TINIAN","country_code":"MP","county_code":"000","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":"2028-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-28","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7103110","mode_s_code":"51145033","mode_s_hex":"A4CA1B","model":"PA-31-350","n_number":"N4078J","name":"STAR MARIANAS AIR INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Saipan","damage":"SUBS","date":"2017-08-30","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"GAA17CA570","probable_cause":"Impact with multiple birds while retracting the landing gear, which resulted in the subsequent failure of the right inboard main landing gear door actuator hose and prevented the pilot from being able to extend the landing gear.","registration":"N4078J","state":"","summary":"Accident on August 30, 2017 at Saipan: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N4078J is a Piper PA-31-350, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Star Marianas Air INC, a corporation in Tinian, Northern Mariana Islands. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 31, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 26, 1981.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Star Marianas Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 31, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated January 26, 1981, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31-8152057 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N4078J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150G (serial 150-65378, cancelled January 19, 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 N4078J: Accident on August 30, 2017 at Saipan: 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":"Western-Pacific","region_code":"4","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":8,"serial_number":"31-8152057","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MP","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 520461","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00261244","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N4078J","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1980,"zip":"969520461"}