{"airworthiness_class":"Restricted","airworthiness_date":"1974-01-15","airworthiness_ops":"Agriculture and pest control","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2015-04-08","city":"QUEENS VILLAGE","country_code":"US","county_code":"081","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":"2028-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-twins","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-05","maker":"Piper","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PIPER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7103110","mode_s_code":"52245136","mode_s_hex":"A94A5E","model":"PA-31-350","n_number":"N698VW","name":"SHEPPARD LOUIS A","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Kerrville","damage":"SUBS","date":"2002-11-06","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"FTW03LA046","probable_cause":"The propeller shaft seal leak resulting in an in-flight fire.","registration":"N698VW","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on November 6, 2002 at Kerrville, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N698VW is a Piper PA-31-350, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 8 seats. It is registered to an individual in Queens Village, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 8, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated January 15, 1974.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Sheppard Louis A, an individual, certificate issued April 8, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated January 15, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31-7405408 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N698VW 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 N698VW: Accident on November 6, 2002 at Kerrville, TX: 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":8,"serial_number":"31-7405408","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"22001 101ST AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00502526","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N698VW","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1974,"zip":"114291645"}