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Piper PA-38-112
N144M 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 Coad Aeronautics LLC, an LLC in Saint Jacob, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 27, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 24, 1990.
Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 4:56 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-38-112 · all PA-38-112s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Piper PA-38 Tomahawk family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 38-78A0596
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 183 mph
- Transponder code
- A0B29F (octal 50131237)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 27, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 27, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 24, 1990
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00281750
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Coad Aeronautics LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 9810 Beacon St
Saint Jacob, IL 62281-1126
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N144M links to the rest of the register
- Piper PA-38 Tomahawk 442 registered
- Piper 44,837 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-235 series 6,132 aircraft with this engine series · 115 hp
- Coad Aeronautics LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Saint Jacob, IL 12 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,061 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Piper PA-38 Tomahawk 21 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Piper PA-38 Tomahawk 86 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Piper PA-38 Tomahawk 183 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-235 series 13 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-235 series 20 reports since 1995
- Where N144M is now · Last seen October 15 at 4:56 pm.
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The public federal record on N144M, 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 Coad Aeronautics LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 27, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 24, 1990, 12 years after the 1978 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 38-78A0596 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N144M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-38-B (serial 214-15, cancelled May 15, 1935). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N144M. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data