Piper PA-46 Malibu Cost

Aviation Week's 2026 planning handbook puts an equipped Piper M350 at $2,060,000, the M500 at $3,500,000 and the M600 at $4,200,000. Those are trade-press prices for the current pressurized singles, not Piper's own list. A used Malibu Mirage asks a median of $719,000 in our sample, about 35% of the new M350 figure, and a used Meridian asks $1,325,000.

The family has a long list of names and one airframe underneath: the PA-46. It began as the piston Malibu, grew into the Mirage and Matrix with a Lycoming engine, then took a turbine and became the Meridian, the M500, the M600 and the M700. The FAA register lists 1,693 of them, and 41.0% are turboprops. The piston airplanes and the turbines are different machines to buy and to run, so this page keeps them apart.

What follows walks through what a new one costs and where the figure comes from, what sellers ask for the used ones, what the FAA data sheet says each model is, who owns the fleet, what the running costs look like and what the NTSB accident files record. Every figure comes from a named public source or a dated sample, and the sources are listed at the end.

Data used: FAA fleet through 2026-10-12; NTSB file through 2026-09-30; asking-price sample 2026-10-15.

What a new Malibu costs, and what that number means

We could not find a Piper price list we can cite. The newest dated source we found is the Aviation Week Business and Commercial Aviation Purchase Planning Handbook for 2026, which prints an equipped price for each current model: $2,060,000 for the M350, $3,500,000 for the M500 and $4,200,000 for the M600. Equipped means a typical well-optioned airplane, so it is a trade-press estimate and not a manufacturer's suggested retail price or anything a buyer signed for.

The same handbook a year earlier had the M350 at $2,060,000, the M500 at $3,300,000 and the M600 at $4,200,000. The M350 and M600 figures did not move. The M500 rose by $200,000. The M600 sits $2,140,000 above the M350, which is the gap between a piston single and a turbine single.

Other new prices circulate online, including some on earlier versions of this article. We could not trace them to a dated source, so none of them appears here. Treat any new-price figure without a date and a publisher with caution, including this one: 2026 trade-press prices are where a negotiation starts, not where it ends.

What sellers ask for a Malibu, Mirage, Matrix and Meridian

We gathered 113 Piper PA-46 listings from one marketplace on 15 October 2026, and 76 of them carried a usable asking price. Sellers label the airplane by name, and the medians sort the piston family neatly: the original Malibu, the Malibu Mirage and the Malibu Matrix.

1. Equipped new M350$2,060,000
2. Meridian$1,325,000
3. Malibu Mirage$719,000
4. Malibu Matrix$672,500
5. Malibu$459,000

The gold bar is the Aviation Week equipped price for a new M350. Teal bars are medians of asking prices. Groups with fewer than 5 priced listings are left out of the chart.

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The original Malibu, the 310 hp Continental airplane the sheet approved in 1983, asks a median of $459,000, 22% of the new M350 figure, on 7 priced listings. The Mirage asks $719,000 on 22 listings, 35%, and the Matrix $672,500, 33%, though that is only 6 priced listings, with 4 more listed as call for price. The Mirage median airframe has flown 1,761.5 hours, the Matrix 1,791.5 and the original Malibu 3,680.

The median Meridian asks $1,325,000, $606,000 more than the median Malibu Mirage.

The Meridian is the best-covered turbine in the sample, with 33 priced listings from $789,000 to $1,950,000. Its median ask is 38% of the M500 equipped price, and its median airframe has flown 2,639 hours. The newer turbines are thinner: the M600 has 4 priced listings asking $2,385,000 to $3,050,000, and the M600 SLS 4 asking $2,990,000 to $3,425,000. Every M500 listing, 13 of them, was call for price, and so were 12 of the M600 SLS listings, so those prices are not public.

One caution covers this whole section. It is one marketplace on one day, with 76 priced listings after we set aside 37 with no price. The labels are the sellers' own, and the sample has no separate M350 row, so the Mirage figures are the nearest match. These are asking prices, not sales, and no individual listing is published. Prices were recorded to the nearest 1,000 dollars.

For the wider market, our guide to what a small plane costs puts the Malibu in context. The closest other four-seat to six-seat piston single on this site is the Beechcraft Bonanza, covered in what a Beechcraft Bonanza costs, and the maker as a whole in what Piper aircraft cost.

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Used asking prices by model

Model or band	All listings	Priced listings	Unpriced listings	Asking median (USD)	Asking range (USD)	Median total time (hours)	Sample years
MALIBU	8	7	1	$459,000	$286,024 to $574,900	3,680	1984 to 1988
MALIBU MIRAGE	24	22	2	$719,000	$410,000 to $975,000	1,761.5	1989 to 2014
MALIBU MATRIX	10	6	4	$672,500	$535,000 to $795,000	1,791.5	2008 to 2012
MERIDIAN	37	33	4	$1,325,000	$789,000 to $1,950,000	2,639	2001 to 2015
M600	5	4	1	Range only	$2,385,000 to $3,050,000	Not shown	2016 to 2021
M600 SLS	16	4	12	Range only	$2,990,000 to $3,425,000	Not shown	2021 to 2024
M500	13	0	13	No priced listings	Not shown	Not shown	Not shown

One airframe, three engine families

The FAA's type certificate data sheet, number A25SO, revision 42 and dated 2026, covers six models. The sheet lists 6 seats for every model. The original piston Malibu lists 122 US gal of fuel, and the turboprops carry more. The piston Malibu tops out at 25,000 ft and the Meridian at 30,000 ft. For where the family sits among other airplanes, the guide to the main types of planes helps.

The sheet does not use the marketing names M350, M500 or M600. Where this page uses them, as the handbook and the sellers do, it matches them to the model that carries the same engine and power. The approval years are certification milestones, not production dates. The register screens each model's records against its approval year, and records with a build year before it are counted separately, not charted.

Unfamiliar terms are in our aviation glossary, and the FAA class a Malibu falls into is covered in airplane category and class types. More airplanes are listed in the aircraft section. And for a break from price tables, there is the old puzzle of whether a plane can take off from a conveyor belt.

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Certified base models, FAA fleet and asking-price context

Model and approval year	Certified specification	Ownership context
PA-46-310PApproved: 1983 FAA sheet	Teledyne Continental TSIO-520-BE 310 hpMaximum takeoff weight: 4,100 lbFuel, total / usable: 122 US gal / Usable fuel capacity is not stated in the supplied extract.Seating: 6 seats	Registered: 216 all registrations; 214 valid (status V)Asking median: Not shown for this designationPrimary engine TBO: No applicable primary schedule retrieved
PA-46-350P PA 46-350P, PA46-350PApproved: 1988 FAA sheet	Textron Lycoming TIO-540-AE2A 350 hpMaximum takeoff weight: 4300 or 4340 lbFuel, total / usable: 122 US gal / Usable fuel capacity is not stated in the supplied extract.Seating: 6 seats	Registered: 681 all registrations; 670 valid (status V)Asking median: Not shown for this designationPrimary engine TBO: 2,000 hours first cycle; 2,000 hours after overhaul
PA-46-500TP PA46-500TPApproved: 2000 FAA sheet	Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-42A See the separate shaft horsepower rating. 500 shpMaximum takeoff weight: The supplied FAA extract does not include the turbine weight tables.Fuel, total / usable: 173 US gal / Usable fuel capacity is not stated in the supplied extract.Seating: 6 seats	Registered: 412 all registrations; 404 valid (status V)Asking median: Not shown for this designationPrimary engine TBO: No applicable primary schedule retrieved
PA46R-350TApproved: 2007 FAA sheet	Textron Lycoming TIO-540-AE2A 350 hpMaximum takeoff weight: 4,340 lbFuel, total / usable: 122 US gal / Usable fuel capacity is not stated in the supplied extract.Seating: 6 seats	Registered: 101 all registrations; 101 valid (status V)Asking median: Not shown for this designationPrimary engine TBO: 2,000 hours first cycle; 2,000 hours after overhaul
PA-46-600TPApproved: 2016 FAA sheet	Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-42A See the separate shaft horsepower rating. 600 shpMaximum takeoff weight: The supplied FAA extract does not include the turbine weight tables.Fuel, total / usable: 263.2 US gal / Usable fuel capacity is not stated in the supplied extract.Seating: 6 seats	Registered: 189 all registrations; 186 valid (status V)Asking median: Not shown for this designationPrimary engine TBO: No applicable primary schedule retrieved
PA-46-701TPApproved: 2024 FAA sheet	Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-52 See the separate shaft horsepower rating. 700 shpMaximum takeoff weight: The supplied FAA extract does not include the turbine weight tables.Fuel, total / usable: 263.2 US gal / Usable fuel capacity is not stated in the supplied extract.Seating: 6 seats	Registered: 93 all registrations; 74 valid (status V)Asking median: Not shown for this designationPrimary engine TBO: No applicable primary schedule retrieved

A fleet built mostly in the 2000s and 2010s, owned by LLCs

The FAA register lists 1,693 aircraft in the PA-46 family, and 1,650 of them (97.5%) hold a valid registration, while 43 carry another status. Of the whole family, 1,542 records have a usable build year, and 1,510 of those are valid. That counts paperwork, not airplanes in the air: a valid registration says nothing about whether the aircraft is airworthy or flying.

1. Malibu Mirage, 350P681
2. Meridian and M500, 500TP412
3. Malibu, 310P216
4. M600, 600TP189
5. Malibu Matrix101
6. M700, 701TP93

Groups follow the FAA's model labels. The register does not separate a Meridian from an M500, which share a model label. One further registration has an unresolved label and is left out of the chart.

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The 350P group is the largest, with 681 aircraft, or 40.2% of the family. The 500TP turboprops follow at 412, then the original 310P at 216, the 600TP at 189, the Matrix at 101 and the newest 701TP at 93. Registration labels are the FAA's, so the groups describe designations, not engines fitted or marketing eras.

1. 2211980s
2. 1831990s
3. 4522000s
4. 4092010s
5. 2772020s

151 records have no usable build year and are left out of the chart.

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55.8% of the registered aircraft with a usable build year were built in the 2000s or the 2010s.

The 2000s are the biggest decade on the register, with 452 aircraft, ahead of the 2010s at 409. The 1980s account for 221, the 1990s for 183 and the 2020s so far for 277. The earliest airplanes are the ones with the biggest question marks: 145 records have a blank or invalid build year, and 6 carry a year earlier than their model was approved.

LLCs hold 60.5% of the register, 1,025 aircraft, far more than any other owner type. Corporations hold 19.6% and individuals 13.3%. Co-owned aircraft hold 4.2%. The registry records the owner category, not how the airplane is used, so a charter operator or a flying club can sit in any of those columns.

Texas (10.3%), Florida (8.9%) and California (8.0%) lead the state table. Delaware has 115 registrations (6.8%), which with LLCs so dominant is a registration-address effect: LLC and trust registrations can carry a Delaware address. It says nothing about where those aircraft fly.

Download the fleet CSV by model and build year. Free to use, please link back. It counts all registrations and valid ones (status V) by model label and build year, including blank years, and contains no personal records.

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Registered model groups

Group	All registrations	Valid (status V)	Share of all registrations
PA-46-310P Malibu labels	216	214	12.8%
PA-46-350P Mirage and M350 labels	681	670	40.2%
PA-46R-350T Matrix labels	101	101	6.0%
PA-46-500TP Meridian and M500 labels	412	404	24.3%
PA-46-600TP M600 labels	189	186	11.2%
Other explicit PA-46 labels, identity unresolved	1	1	0.1%
PA-46-701TP M700 labels	93	74	5.5%

Largest FAA model labels

Model label	All registrations	Valid (status V)
PA 46-350P	665	654
PA46-500TP	376	369
PA-46-310P	216	214
PA-46-600TP	189	186
PA46R-350T	101	101
PA-46-701TP	93	74
PA-46-500TP	36	35
PA46-350P	9	9
PA-46-350P	7	7
PA46-350T	1	1

Decade shares among records with usable build years

Build decade	All registrations	Share of known years	Valid (status V)	Valid share of known years
1980s	221	14.3%	220	14.6%
1990s	183	11.9%	182	12.1%
2000s	452	29.3%	446	29.5%
2010s	409	26.5%	409	27.1%
2020s	277	18.0%	253	16.8%

Registrant types with the FAA legend

FAA code	Registrant type	All registrations	Valid (status V)	Share of all registrations
1	Individual	225	211	13.3%
2	Partnership	5	5	0.3%
3	Corporation	332	332	19.6%
4	Co-Owned	71	71	4.2%
5	Government	1	1	0.1%
7	LLC	1,025	1,025	60.5%
8	Non Citizen Corporation	34	5	2.0%
9	Non Citizen Co-Owned	0	0	No records

Largest registrant-state totals

State	All registrations	Valid (status V)	Share of all registrations
TX	175	175	10.3%
FL	151	120	8.9%
CA	136	135	8.0%
DE	115	115	6.8%
CO	52	51	3.1%
MT	51	50	3.0%
NC	50	48	3.0%
AZ	49	49	2.9%
GA	48	48	2.8%
UT	48	48	2.8%

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All exact FAA model labels

Model label	All registrations	Valid (status V)
PA 46-350P	665	654
PA46-500TP	376	369
PA-46-310P	216	214
PA-46-600TP	189	186
PA46R-350T	101	101
PA-46-701TP	93	74
PA-46-500TP	36	35
PA46-350P	9	9
PA-46-350P	7	7
PA46-350T	1	1
Total	1,693	1,650

The list price is only the entry fee

After the purchase the airplane wants fuel, an engine fund, an annual inspection, insurance and somewhere to sleep. Only some of those have a published number worth printing, and the turbine models have the fewest, because the engine makers publish their overhaul schedules behind account logins.

Fuel

Plane and Pilot's specification table for the 2006 Malibu Mirage gives 20 US gal/hour at 75 percent power and 18 US gal/hour at 65 percent. That is one airplane from one model year, so the calculator leaves fuel burn for you to fill in. The data sheet lists 122 US gal of fuel for the Mirage, which at the higher burn is about 6.1 hours of flying before reserves. We found no published burn for the turbine models we could use.

The engine

Lycoming's service instruction sets the TIO-540-AE series at 2,000 hours for a factory new or rebuilt engine and 2,000 hours after an overhaul, or 12 calendar years, with conditions attached. That is the engine in the Mirage and the Matrix. The original Malibu's Continental TSIO-520-BE and the Pratt and Whitney Canada turbines have schedules that sit behind account logins we could not use, so we publish no interval for them. Ask the shop that would do the work. The engine is the line item that arrives all at once.

The rest

The FAA describes an annual inspection interval of 12 calendar months for ordinary US personal aircraft ownership. Insurance, hangar or tie-down fees, labour rates and loan terms depend too much on the owner, the airfield and the airplane for one published number to mean anything, so this page prints none. Add your own quotes to the fuel figures above and you have a budget that belongs to you. More on the wider costs of owning an aircraft sits in our ownership section.

Renting is the benchmark your own figure has to justify. Our guide to how much it costs to rent a Cessna 172 shows the other side of the ledger for a much smaller airplane.

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Plane and Pilot fuel consumption, exact model year and stated power basis

Model year	Power setting	Fuel burn	Source
2006 Mirage	75 percent power	20 US gal/hour	Plane and Pilot spec table; retrieved 2026-10-15
2006 Mirage	65 percent power	18 US gal/hour	Plane and Pilot spec table; retrieved 2026-10-15

What the accident files record

Every entry in the NTSB files is a real event, and the counts are all this page claims to know about them. The NTSB lists 327 accidents involving PA-46-family aircraft from 2000 through 2025. Of those, 99, or 30.3%, were fatal, and 233 people died in them. Another 2 accidents involved explicit turbine conversions of the Malibu and are not counted here.

1. 2000
6. 2005
11. 2010
16. 192015
21. 2020
26. 152025

Counts only. The NTSB does not record how many hours the family flew, so these bars are not rates.

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The yearly count runs from 12 in 2000 to a high of 19 in 2015 and 15 in 2025. The fleet changed a great deal over those years, and the data holds no flying hours to divide by, so neither a rising nor a falling count is a measure of risk. The NTSB's most recent records can also be preliminary.

1. Malibu Mirage, 350P108
2. Model not stated95
3. Malibu, 310P57
4. Meridian and M500, 500TP46
5. Malibu Matrix8
6. M600, 600TP3

95 accidents carry a bare family label with no model stated, so they cannot be assigned to a model. A further 9 have labels we could not resolve and 1 involved an M700.

Source: NTSB aviation accident database</> Embed this chart

1. Landing98
2. Approach49
3. Takeoff46
4. Enroute41
5. Cruise14
6. Taxi6
7. Maneuvering4

The first coded phase is the one attached to the first event in the NTSB's sequence for each accident. Accidents without a coded sequence, or with unmapped codes, sit in separate rows of the full table.

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Landing begins 30.0% of the accidents, with approach at 15.0%, takeoff at 14.1% and enroute at 12.5%. Landing and approach together begin 45.0% of them. The data cannot say why, and the files do not record how each airplane was being used.

The NTSB's own findings point at people and machines together. Of the 183 accidents with causal findings in its current coding, 79.2% involve aircraft issues and 75.4% involve personnel issues. An accident can carry several findings, so the shares overlap and do not add up to the whole.

The year the airplane was built is known for only some of these accidents. Of the 327, 188 (57.5%) have no usable build year, so any era view is a view of the minority that do. Among those that do, the 1983 to 1987 airplanes account for 28 accidents, the 1988 to 1999 airplanes for 31, the 2000 to 2006 airplanes for 30 and the 2007 to 2015 airplanes for 40. Counts by era are not rates, and the older bands have had many more years to fly.

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NTSB accident counts by event year

Year	Accidents	Fatal accidents
2000	12	3
2001	13	6
2002	11	5
2003	12	5
2004	7	2
2005	9	2
2006	15	4
2007	14	4
2008	12	7
2009	9	4
2010	16	5
2011	15	3
2012	9	2
2013	17	2
2014	16	7
2015	19	8
2016	11	1
2017	5	1
2018	9	1
2019	9	4
2020	15	2
2021	13	3
2022	13	5
2023	18	5
2024	13	7
2025	15	1

First coded phase of flight

Phase of flight	Accidents	Share of all accidents
Landing	98	30.0%
Approach	49	15.0%
Takeoff	46	14.1%
Enroute	41	12.5%
Initial Climb	15	4.6%
Cruise	14	4.3%
Prior to Flight	14	4.3%
Taxi	6	1.8%
Climb	5	1.5%
Emergency or uncontrolled descent	5	1.5%
Maneuvering	4	1.2%
Other, unknown or not coded	30	9.2%
Total	327	100.0%

Modern findings: overlapping cause or contributing-factor groups

Group	Accidents	Share of all	Share of coded subset
Aircraft	145	44.3%	79.2%
Personnel issues	138	42.2%	75.4%
Environmental issues	48	14.7%	26.2%
Organizational issues	4	1.2%	2.2%
Not determined	21	6.4%	11.5%

Legacy findings: overlapping cause or contributing-factor groups

Group	Accidents	Share of all	Share of coded subset
Aircraft/Environment	46	14.1%	59.0%
Human Performance	66	20.2%	84.6%
Direct Underlying Factors	14	4.3%	17.9%

Recorded manufacture-year bands, shares of all accidents

Manufacture band	Accidents	Share of all
Year of manufacture 1983 to 1987	28	8.6%
Year of manufacture 1988 to 1999	31	9.5%
Year of manufacture 2000 to 2006	30	9.2%
Year of manufacture 2007 to 2015	40	12.2%
Year of manufacture 2016 to 2023	8	2.4%
Year of manufacture 2024 to 2025	2	0.6%
Unknown year of manufacture	188	57.5%
Family aircraft in different manufacture-year bands	0	0.0%

What to take from the numbers

• Know which airplane you are pricing. In our sample the median ask runs from $459,000 for a Malibu through $672,500 for a Matrix and $719,000 for a Mirage to $1,325,000 for a Meridian. The turbines are a different budget, not a bigger version of the same one.
• Treat new prices as a starting point. The $2,060,000 M350 figure is a trade-press equipped estimate, not Piper's list price.
• Treat an asking price as an opening line. These are what sellers want. The sample cannot see what buyers pay, and every M500 listing and 12 of the M600 SLS listings were call for price.
• Ask which engine it has and its time since overhaul. The Mirage and Matrix share a Lycoming with a published 2,000 hours schedule. The airframe medians in our sample run from 1,761.5 to 3,680 hours, and the engine's own history is a separate number.
• Do not read a valid registration as a clean bill of health. Status V is paperwork, not an inspection.
• Budget with your own quotes. At 20 US gal/hour for a 2006 Mirage before the engine fund, the annual inspection, insurance and storage, fuel is only the start.

Questions buyers ask

How much does a new Piper Malibu cost?

Aviation Week's 2026 planning handbook lists an equipped M350 at $2,060,000, the M500 at $3,500,000 and the M600 at $4,200,000. These are trade-press prices, not Piper's list prices.

How much does a used Piper Malibu cost?

In a one-day sample of asking prices on Controller.com, the median ask was $459,000 for a Malibu, $672,500 for a Malibu Matrix and $719,000 for a Malibu Mirage. A Meridian asked a median of $1,325,000. Those are asking prices, not sales.

How much does the Malibu burn per hour?

Plane and Pilot gives 20 US gal/hour at 75 percent power for a 2006 Malibu Mirage. Engine reserve, insurance, storage and inspections come on top, so price them with your own quotes.

How many Piper PA-46 aircraft are there?

The FAA register lists 1,693 aircraft in the PA-46 family, 1,650 with a valid registration.

How many Piper PA-46 accidents has the NTSB recorded?

The NTSB files hold 327 accidents from 2000 through 2025, 99 of them fatal. These are counts, not rates, because flying hours by model are not published.

Sources and how the numbers were made

Data through: FAA 2026-10-12; NTSB 2026-09-30; asking sample 2026-10-15.

How the numbers were made: We counted matching FAA registrations and showed valid registrations (status V) separately. We combined the NTSB files, counted each accident once and excluded incidents. Used prices are summaries of advertised prices. Fuel cost examples multiply published fuel burn by example fuel prices.

Privacy: No personal data is used in the published results. No owner, seller, crew, operator, narrative or individual accident record is published.

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• Federal Aviation Administration. Aircraft Registration Database Description. Retrieved 2026-10-13. This document explains registration status and registrant-type codes.
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• National Transportation Safety Board. Aviation data download directory. Retrieved 2026-10-13. The directory gives the accident files' release dates.
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• National Transportation Safety Board. Aviation accident database query help. Retrieved 2026-10-13. The help page explains event dates, first phases, investigation status and limits on foreign investigations.
• National Transportation Safety Board. Aviation accident database. Retrieved 2026-10-13. The database page explains the geographic limits of these accident records.
• Federal Aviation Administration. General Aviation and Part 135 Activity Survey. Retrieved 2026-10-13. The survey reports flight hours by aircraft category, which cannot support a model accident rate.
• Controller.com. Piper PA-46 and M-class aircraft for sale. Retrieved 2026-10-15. The dated sample supplies asking-price summaries and priced and unpriced listing counts by label.

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