Piper PA-46 Malibu / Mirage / Meridian — U.S. Fleet History & Risk Data
Piston · 1,655 aircraft on the U.S. registry · built 1983–2026
NTSB records whose airframe serial does not match the aircraft currently holding the registration are excluded, as are service difficulty reports filed while a registration belonged to a different aircraft. U.S. registrations get reused; these counts are reconciled to the airframes actually in this fleet.
Where this fleet reports maintenance difficulties
FAA Service Difficulty Reports filed against Piper PA-46 Malibu / Mirage / Meridian airframes, grouped by JASC system chapter — a factual picture of what mechanics actually report on this type.
- 32 — Landing Gear : 25 reports
- 85 — Reciprocating Engine : 18 reports
- 71 — Powerplant : 14 reports
- 74 — Ignition : 14 reports
- 57 — Wings : 13 reports
Recent airworthiness directives matched to this type
- AD 2023-25-02 · effective 2023-12-19 — report that a bearing fell out of a control column mount during routine handling prior to installation in an affected airplane and the discovery that a quality
- AD 2022-11-10 · effective 2022-06-27 — testing that showed that the wing splice assembly could fail before the assembly reaches its established life limit
- AD 2021-09-02 · effective 2021-04-16 — The FAA is superseding Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2021-04-07 which applied to certain Piper Aircraft, Inc., (Piper) Models PA-46- 350P (Malibu Mirage), PA-46R-350T (Malibu Matrix), and PA-46-500TP (Malibu Meridian) airplanes. AD 2021-04-07 required identifying and correcting nonconforming stall warning heat control systems. Since AD 2021-04-07 was issued, the FAA was notified of an error in the stall warning heat control modification kit part number. This AD retains all of the actions in AD 2021-04-07 and corrects the incorrect modification kit part number. The FAA is issuing this AD to addr
- AD 2019-12-12 · effective 2019-07-12 — report of understrength rivets installed during manufacture of the bulkhead assembly
- AD 2018-14-01 · effective 2018-07-25 — report of undersized fasteners installed during manufacturing
ADs published since 1997 in our Federal Register database — the full list of directives applicable to an older airframe is longer; build it at drs.faa.gov. Open/superseded status reflects our last sync. Compliance for a specific airframe can only be verified in its logbooks — that's exactly what our per-aircraft report flags.
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