Piper PA-38-112
N11BA is a Piper PA-38-112, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1978. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated June 14, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-38-112 · all PA-38-112s and related versions
- Serial number
- 38-78A0317
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 183 mph
- Transponder code
- A029F4 (octal 50024764)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 9, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · June 14, 1978
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00480980
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mccloskey Michael R
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1076 Portland Ave
Saint Paul, MN 55104-7010 - Co-owners
- Mccloskey Allison N
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N11BA, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Mccloskey Michael R, a co-owned, certificate issued February 9, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated June 14, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 38-78A0317 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N11BA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 28-25251, cancelled May 23, 1978). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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. [3]
1 NTSB record under N11BA: Accident on September 7, 1991 at Kansas City, MO: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-38-112 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S MISJUDGEMENT OF THE LANDING FLARE AND NOT MAINTAINING DIRECTIONAL CONTROL DURING A LANDING TOUCHDOWN AND ROLL. A FACTOR WAS THE PILOT'S LACK OF TOTAL EXPEREINCE.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data