{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2001-03-09","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2020-07-16","city":"NEWPORT","country_code":"US","county_code":"005","cruise_speed_mph":null,"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":"2027-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-04-14","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7104620","mode_s_code":"52062530","mode_s_hex":"A86558","model":"PA 46-350P","n_number":"N640BD","name":"EDAIR LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Tallahassee","damage":"MINR","date":"2013-10-08","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA14IA019","probable_cause":"The failure of the nose landing gear (NLG) actuator attachment bolt due to fatigue for reasons that could not be determined during postincident examination, which resulted in the NLG collapsing during landing.","registration":"N640BD","state":"FL","summary":"Incident on October 8, 2013 at Tallahassee, FL: no injuries, minor damage.","type":"INC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N640BD is a Piper PA 46-350P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1990. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Edair LLC, an LLC in Newport, Rhode Island. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 16, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 9, 2001.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Edair LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 16, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 9, 2001, 11 years after the 1990 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 4622095 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N640BD 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 N640BD: Incident on October 8, 2013 at Tallahassee, FL: 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":"New England","region_code":"E","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":6,"serial_number":"4622095","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"RI","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"60 KAY ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00545402","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N640BD","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1990,"zip":"028402846"}