Piper PA-38-112
N2472N is a Piper PA-38-112, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1979. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Greenville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 27, 2007 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 4, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Piper
- Model
- PA-38-112 · all PA-38-112s and related versions
- Serial number
- 38-79A0860
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 183 mph
- Transponder code
- A24CAB (octal 50446253)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 27, 2007
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 4, 1979
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00702742
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vann Dudley C DBA
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 978
Greenville, NC 27835-0978 - Co-owners
- Aero Sales
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 N2472N, 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 Vann Dudley C DBA, an individual, certificate issued November 27, 2007, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 4, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 38-79A0860 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2472N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 120 (serial 12725, cancelled June 29, 1951). 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 N2472N: Accident on April 3, 1999 at Lincoln Univ., PA: 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 student pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed which resulted in an inadvertent stall/mush. Also causal was the certified flight instructor's inadequate supervision.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC99LA087 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
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