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N40978

Piper PA-31-350

Valid Kansas

N40978 is a Piper PA-31-350, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Dodson International Parts INC, a corporation in Rantoul, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 13, 1981.

Aircraft

Maker
Piper
Model
PA-31-350
Serial number
31-8152199
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
Seats
8
Year built
1981
Cruising speed
162 mph
Transponder code
A4D17E (octal 51150576)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
September 21, 2007
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · November 13, 1981
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00141304

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Dodson International Parts INC
Type
Corporation
Address
2155 Vermont Rd
Rantoul, KS 66079-9014

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1975-02-24Piper PA-28-180 · exported to Iran · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data