Piper PA-28-161
N2378U is a Piper PA-28-161, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to International Flight Academy LLC, an LLC in Ft Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 26, 2011 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 10, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-28-161 · all PA-28-161s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28-8016022
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A22604 (octal 50423004)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 26, 2011
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 10, 1979
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00502402
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- International Flight Academy LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 123353
Ft Worth, TX 76121-3353
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.
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The public federal record on N2378U, 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 International Flight Academy LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 26, 2011, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 10, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28-8016022 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2378U according to the deregistered file. [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 N2378U: Accident on May 7, 2006 at Grayslake, IL: 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-28-161 · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to maintain clearance from the parked vehicle during taxi and the flight instructor's inadequate operational oversight. A factor to the accident was the parked vehicle.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI06CA134 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data